Webhelp Glossary help

[Bob.Conlin]

Using a topichead and glossrefs (with print="yes") to individual glossentry dita files I was able to get my pdf glossary to look exactly as expected: Glossary title with individual entries to browse thru. When I transformed to CHM & Webhelp the output was not as expected. In my searches for solutions I found http://www.oxygenxml.com/samples/DITA-W ... index.html which has a glossary that looks great. Please let me know how this was done & what am I missing. Here is a sample of my glossary in the ditamap:

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    <topichead navtitle="Glossary" type="topic">

        <glossref href="Glossary/DITA.dita" keys="dita" print="yes"/>

[sorin_ristache]

Hello,

If it is a map (your map has a root element map) you should include the glossary entries as in the following fragment:

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 <topichead navtitle="Glossary" locktitle="yes">

        <topicref href="Glossary/DITA.dita" type="glossentry" keys="dita" print="yes"/>

 </topichead>

If it is a bookmap (your map has a root element bookmap) you should include the entries as in:

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  <backmatter>

      <booklists>

          <glossarylist navtitle="Glossary" locktitle="yes">

              <topicref href="Glossary/DITA.dita" type="glossentry" keys="dita" print="yes"/>

          </glossarylist>

      </booklists>

  </backmatter>

Regards,
Sorin

[Bob.Conlin]

Hi Sorin,
This is what I found to work to get the Glossaries that I wanted.

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<topichead navtitle="Glossary" locktitle="yes" audience="pdf">

        <!-- Works for PDF -->

        <glossref href="Glossary/DITA.dita" keys="dita" print="yes"/>

        <glossref href="Glossary/DITAMap.dita" keys="ditamap" print="yes"/>

    </topichead>

    <!-- Works for WebHelp and CHM -->

    <topicref href="GlossaryGroupRef.dita" type="topic" audience="chm"/>

Then in GlossaryGroupRef.dita I have:

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE glossgroup PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Glossary Group//EN" "glossgroup.dtd">

<glossgroup id="glossgroup_wsc_rns_yf">

  <title>Glossary</title>

  <glossentry id="dita" conref="Glossary\DITA.dita#dita">

    <glossterm/>

  </glossentry>

  <glossentry id="ditamap" conref="Glossary\DITAMap.dita#ditamap">

    <glossterm/>

  </glossentry>

</glossgroup>

Plus a little conditional profiling in the transformations for audience="pdf" or "chm" (works for webhelp & html too) and were good to go.

[sorin_ristache]

Hi Bob,

Thank you for letting us know.


Regards,
Sorin