Aah, I see it in Oxygen's 3.x OT. But it's not in the 2.5 OT I am working with. I thought it was some Oxygen extension or something. There are no docs about this, either, in the OT docs at https://www.dita-ot.org/. Maybe I'll open a bug.

Thanks Radu!

In working on a DITA OT XSLT file in Oxygen 21.1, I saw many XPath functions in the XPath dropdown that have a "dita-ot:" prefix like these: dita-ot:resolve-href-path() dita-ot:capitalize(text) dita-ot:get-closest-topic(n) etc. There are about 21 of these in the XPath function dropdown. Wh...

Ouch! You're right. That fixed it, Radu, thank you very much! I've looked at that file a hundred times. I have a follow-on question now. This setup uses a fake string "file:///mystring/" in the catalog to make it easier on authors, as kind of an alias: <system systemId="file:///mystri...

I'm running Docbook 5.1 and I'm using XML catalog files to resolve file paths. There are 3 catalog files connected with <nextCatalog> elements. When I add the top-level catalog to Options/Preferences/XML/XML Catalog, Docbook publishing fails because it can't resolve the file paths. But when I add th...

That worked Radu. Thanks again!!

Using DITA OT 3.2.1, running HTML-based output (Suitehelp). This command line runs successfully: bin\dita -f suitehelp -i "C:\path\to\mymap.ditamap" -v But when I try to run the same OT, transtype and ditamap in Oxygen v.18.1, the build fails with the errors below near the end of the build...

I am running two transformation scenarios that uses a customized DITA OT v1.8.5 to produce pdf2 and D4P output. Both PDF and D4P produce output when I run it in Oxygen 19. But when I run the same scenarios in Oxygen 20.1, they both fail. Partial PDF and D4P log files below. What do you think? Thanks...

Aha! Great, that worked. I went to System Preferences > Keyboard > Shortcuts, and I unchecked Mission Control (which was Ctrl-Up Arrow) and also unchecked Application windows (Ctrl-Down Arrow).

Now I can do what I need with Ctrl-up/down, just like in Windows.

Thanks,
Mark

Using Oxygen 19.1 standalone on OSX. When I have a file open (XML, XSLT, shell script etc), I want to scroll the window without moving the mouse. On Windows I can do this with Ctrl-Up Arrow and Ctrl-Down Arrow. What is the equivalent on OSX? I can do this with 2 fingers on the trackpad but I want a ...

I have a client who has a dozen or more writers using Oxygen but the department manager complained to me that she could not renew the Oxygen maintenance by having her purchasing department issue a purchase order. The manager has to use her own credit card to buy the maintenance, and then fill out an...

I got it working. All I did was to remove the existing XEP config in the FO Processors dialog, and replace it with nothing. Then it just worked. I guess Oxygen was smart enough to figure it out from these DITA OT parameters that were already there in the transformations scenario: pdf.formatter = xep...

Thanks Radu. Does it need to be the shell script? Because the XEP shell script (usually called "xep") is not in the repo I'm using. Only the jar file xep.jar is available as an executable. I could dig up the shell script from another XEP installation I have, but I'd like to now if I can ge...

I'm using Oxygen 18.1 on OSX. Oxygen seemed to find where XEP was when I installed Oxygen. But when I run a PDF from a DITA map (DITA OT 1.8.5), the build fails with this error: BUILD FAILED /Users/maglid/git/tools/DITA-OT/build.xml:44: The following error occurred while executing this line: /Users/...

Adrian, I emailed the force quit log file to support@oxygenxml.com.

Here is another report. This was from today, the author opened Oxygen using Launch Pad. Oxygen never opened, it just had an endless spinning beachball. He had to use Force Quit. No Oxygen messages. This time Oxygen would open after the Force Quit. There have been times in the past where it hasn't, a...

Thanks Adrian. I'm collecting more information. Here is a response from one writer: Just about every morning, when I go to open Oxygen I get a dialog with the following message: "The application may have crashed during the precious run. Do you want to open the files that were being edited in th...

I have about a dozen writers using Oxygen 18.1 on Mac OS X (DITA). About 5 of them say that Oxygen crashes on them every day at least once. Some of those are using OS X Sierra 10.12.4. Sometimes they can't get Oxygen to work again unless they reboot. Is there a problem with 18.1 on OSX? Would upgrad...

Using version 18.1. My map called top-level.ditamap references topics and a map of key definitions: <map> <title>My Guide</title> <topicref href="topic1.xml" /> <topicref href="topic2.xml" /> <mapref href="keydefs.ditamap" format="ditamap"/> </map> keydefs.dit...

Do you sell this plugin? I need to run it on a server, not from Oxygen.

Thanks,
Mark

Thanks for the information, Adrian. I might try setting up the W3C validator with Oxygen. For reference, the code for this validator is here:

https://validator.w3.org/source/
https://github.com/w3c/markup-validator

Regards,
Mark

Using Oxygen 18.0. I work with a lot of HTML5 documents these days and I want to be able to validate them in oxygen, or at least pretty-print them. But pretty-print fails because it does not like the non-XML HTML5 syntax. I don't want to have to XML-ize all the HTML5 I work with. Is there some way t...

Hi Radu, I put DITA template files in <Oxygen install dir>/frameworks/dita/templates/<company>. Then I went to Options > Preferences > Editor > Templates > Document Templates and added the template dir above. Removing the standard DITA templates would be good, what's a good way to do that? Removing ...

I have made custom DITA DTD shells for a team of writers, using a custom doctype in the standard way. I've created custom Oxygen map and topic templates that use these doctypes and installed them in the authors' New dialog box. But authors still sometimes create topics with the standard DTDs, which ...

I have a set of DITA template files that have a custom doctype. If I manually add the template folder using Options > Preferences > Editor > Templates > Document Templates, they appear in the New dialog box. Is there a way to distribute this template setup to authors without them having to manually ...

Will the webhelp plugin work in DITA Open Toolkit version 1.5.3? My client uses that version, and using a newer version inside their CCMS would take more effort. By the way I would be using the server license of the webhelp plugin.

Thanks,
Mark

So I assume this also applies to customized attribute files? For example in \plugins\myplugin\cfg\fo\attrs\custom.xsl I have this order: <xsl:include href="task-elements-attr.xsl"/> <xsl:include href="commons-attr.xsl"/> <xsl:include href="toc-attr.xsl"/> <xsl:include h...

My client uses easyDITA and I want to upload the Oxygen webhelp DITA Open Toolkit plugin to their easyDITA server so they can use it to build their webhelp system on easyDITA, as opposed to having to do it on their local computers with Oxygen. Can I just upload this plugin, or do they need to buy th...

Great idea, thanks for the suggestion Sorin.

Mark

Thanks for the information, it is useful. But I wanted to know if I could use an alias number instead of hard-coded paths and filenames of HTML files. With context-sensitive help in an installed application, it is normal to use aliases instead of hard-coded filenames and paths. You create a mapping ...

I want to do context-sensitive help using Oxygen Webhelp output (DITA source files). This would be on the file system where an application is installed. It looks like I can call the help system with a specific HTML file displayed with a syntax like the following: file:///C:/Users/joe/path/webhelp/in...