Inserting topic content to another topic

Post by **plumblei** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 1:58 pm

I need to insert the complete content of a topic to another. How do I do that?

Post by **Radu** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 3:17 pm

Hi,

You can nest a topic in another topic, something like:

<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN" "topic.dtd">

<topic id="topic1">

  <title>Title1</title>

  <body>

    <p>para1</p>

  </body>

  <!-- Second topic can go here -->

  <topic id="topic2">

    <title>Title2</title>

    <body>

      ......

    </body>

  </topic>

</topic>

or you can copy the entire contents of the body element from the first topic and paste it in the body of the second one.

Regards,
Radu

Post by **plumblei** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 3:41 pm

Sorry for not making this clear from the start.
I want to insert the other topic's content (several paras, images, lists, etc) as a reusable element. I read in the Help, that normally reusable elements are made only of a part of a topic content. So I thought may be there's other way to do it.

Post by **Radu** » Fri Jul 05, 2013 3:52 pm

Hi,

You can make a content reference from one element to another. Or a content reference from one element to a bunch of other consecutive elements with the same name (which is not an option for your case).

You could surround all elements which need to be reused in a section with an @id and then make a content reference to that section from the other topic.

Regards,
Radu

Post by **plumblei** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 11:39 am

Thank you, Radu. Wrapping everything in <section> did the trick. However, I stumblued upon another problem. The inserted topic belongs to other ditamap than the current one. The references in this topic get broken when I print the current ditamap. Can I set a condition that will print these references as plain text instead of links for this ditamap?

Post by **Radu** » Tue Jul 09, 2013 2:15 pm

Hi,

You could do this with conditional profiling.

Basically the reused content would have something like:

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<xref audience="firstMap" href="topic.dita"/><ph audience="secondMap">FALLBACK TEXT</ph>

And then you would publish one DITA Map by eliminating all elements with @audience="secondMap" and you would publish the other by eliminating the @audience="firstMap"

If you edit a transformation scenario in Oxygen, in the Filters tab you can either refer to a DITAVAL filter file or specify directly that you want to filter a certain attribute with a certain value.

Some useful links if you are not familiar with profiling:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-oxygen/ ... ments.html

and a video demonstration which shows another evolved way to profile with Oxygen by defining profiling condition sets:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/demo/DITA_Profiling.html

Regards,
Radu

Post by **plumblei** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 12:35 pm

Thanks, Radu.
One of the reusable parts is inserted as

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 <section conref="path/to/topic/A"/>

to a topic in ditamap B.
The original topic A contains the following <codeblock> section

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<codeblock outputclass="c" class="+ topic/pre pr-d/codeblock "><coderef href="examples/hello/hello_main.c"/></codeblock>

This code snippet is displayed correctly when printing the original ditamap A, but when printing ditamap B (the one containing the reusable part), the code snippet is not printed and I get an error during the transformation process. How can I fix this?
It is worth mentioning that the 2 ditamaps reside in different folders.

Post by **Radu** » Wed Jul 24, 2013 12:53 pm

Hi,

I will assume that the @conref attribute value correctly references the target element.
For example if you open the DITA Map in the DITA Maps Manager and use "Validate and check for completeness", does it report any problems? If it does not, the problem could be this one:

http://www.oxygenxml.com/doc/ug-editor/ ... -refs.html

Regards,
Radu

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