I tried running Ant from the command line but failed: C:\DITA-OT\DITA-OT1.7.5\tools\ant\bin>ant Unable to locate tools.jar. Expected to find it in C:\ProgramData\Adobe\CS5\lib\tools.jar Buildfile: build.xml does not exist! Build failed Looks like Adobe has hijacked one of the Java environment variab...

Hi Radu, You probably edited the transformation scenario and in the Parameters tab set a value for the dita.dir parameter. That value must be a file path like C:\DITA-OT\DITA-OT1_7_2\build.xml and not an URL path like you have now file:\C:\DITA-OT\DITA-OT1_7_2\build.xml . You were right. I had copie...

Thanks for the quick response, Radu. I will try that and report back.

Frank

Hi, I'm getting the same error message when using an external DITA-OT with oXygen 15.2 and a custom DITA transformation. The build.xml file exists but the build fails directly after starting the transformation. Buildfile: file:\C:\DITA-OT\DITA-OT1_7_2\build.xml does not exist! Build failed Frank

Just for clarification: I used the "standard" release and not the "full easy install" release, which actually contains a lib/saxon folder with all the required .jar files.

Frank

Thanks for the quick reply, Radu. Actually, I did use the "full easy install". I will test this again on another machine and open a bug on GitHub if necessary.

Kind regards,
Frank

Hi, When using an external DITA-OT with oXygen according to the instructions at http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/#tasks/use-new-dita-ot.html, I get the following error message: C:\DITA-OT\DITA-OT1.8.4\lib\saxon does not exist. Adding that (empty) folder solves the problem. According to https:/...

Hi Adrian,

Thanks for the quick reply and sorry for the false alarm. I have some other plug-ins installed and as all update URLs were gone except for the oXygen one I suspected oXygen to be the culprit.

I will check again and report back.

Kind regards,
Frank

I'm using the oXygen Eclipse plugin v. 15.2 with Eclipse Kepler. Now at Window > Preferences > Install/Update all Available Software Sites are gone and only http://www.oxygenxml.com/InstData/Editor/Eclipse is left.

Frank

I think I found the culprit. I forgot the "dita/" sub-folder part when setting "${frameworks}/dita/dita.jar".

Hello, I'm adapting a copy of the dita.framework . When switching to Author mode I now get the following error message: Couldn't load custom Extensions Bundle from class: ro.sync.ecss.extensions.dita.DITAExtensionsBundle I suppose I've messed up things during the configuration but I don't now where ...

Thanks for the quick reply and the information, Alex!

Frank

Hi, For XSLT transformation scenarios one can apply Additional XSLT stylesheets after the main XSLT transformation (http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-author/#topics/xslt-tab.html). I'd like to first apply an XSLT transformation and then a PDF transformation to the same XML file. Is that possible? If n...

Thanks for the clarification, Radu. So we have the choice between two context sensitive help mechanisms

Just a clarifying question: Is this the same mechanism that drives the Dynamic Help View?

Frank

Thanks for the quick response and the thorough explanation!

JFTR

Internal browser not fully CSS compliant? provides some valuable information on oXygen's CSS support, see also http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... ctors.html

Hello, I'm trying to modify the CSS for oXygen's Author mode so frames around figures resemble the PDF output. Normal figures should be "shrink-wrapped" (http://haslayout.net/css-tuts/CSS-Shrink-Wrap), figures with the attribute @expanse="page" should span the whole page width. T...

Thanks for the thorough instruction, Radu. That's quite cool and I hope to try that soon.

Kind regards,
Frank

Thanks for the quick reply, Radu. This sounds like a great feature. Where can I find instructions on how to provide custom help for my oXygen users?

Kind regards,
Frank

Hello, I've stumbled across the styleguide folder in oXygen's DITA framework ({installation_dir}\Oxygen XML Author 15\frameworks\dita\styleguide). There's a reference "From The DITA Style Guide - Best Practices for Authors (Tony Self) (http://www.ditastyle.com)" in the contentFilter.xsl fi...

Hi Radu,

Thanks for the quick reply. I will re-post my question there.

Cheers,
Frank

Hi all, we want to insert a table via conref and then link from outside the conref to different elements within the table. Those links are broken when we run a DITA OT transformation (PDF). The problem is that the IDs within the conref are generated in the preprocessing (see https://github.com/dita-...

Thanks for these pointers. I had a look at some similar actions but couldn't figure out what to change.

Cheers,
Frank

Thanks for the clarification, Adrian.

Hi Adrian, If you want to change the color of the DTD tokens, go to Options > Preferences, Editor > Colors and expand the DTD node to reveal the configurable token colors. This setting seems to be missing in oXygen Author . I only have settings for XML, JavaScript, XQuery/XPath, PHP, CSS, and Text. ...

I want to create an Author Action for toggling the alignment of selected table cells. Among the Author Default Operations there is a ChangeAttributeOperation and a ToggleSurroundWithElementOperation . Is there a way to combine these to create something like a "ToggleAttributeOperation"? TI...

Many thanks! That was the missing link.

Frank

Thanks for the quick reply, Radu! Then in the Toolbar tab a new toolbar can be added and to it you can add the custom actions. That's what I had read in the documentation but I don't find any "Add" button. Can it be that this is because I run oXygen in Author mode and not in Editor or Deve...

Hi, I also want to create an additional toolbar for my customized Author Actions. I had a look at the WorkspaceAccess sample plugin from the OxygenPluginsDevelopmentKit and read the PluginDeveloperGuide.pdf but cannot figure out how to achieve this. This looks a bit daunting for the not so Java savv...