Showing metadata and changes in table on the front-page/before the TOC
Posted: Sat Dec 12, 2020 4:20 pm
Hello,
I'm developing right now a customized DITA framework, we are planning to publish a WebHelp and a PDF output generated from the content of a DITA BookMap (consisting of ditamaps and topics). What I would like to do and I don't find yet the best solution for it, is to customize the output in such a way that on the front page besides the title it shows other types of metadata (mainly customized by me in the DTD-s, like product verions, release number, etc.) complying to the style requirements of the company. I have been experimenting with the DITA Map to PDF with HTML5 and CSS transformation scenario and building a custom CSS, though it seems it doesn't allow for a lot of customization. I would like to ask for some advice whether to rather switch to the XSL-FO based transformation scenario, and if so where to begin to put the customization?
Another task would be to include a table of the changes also collected from the metadata section of the Bookmap, which could be done easily if I get right the first section. But I could use some kind of directive in this respect.
At my last job we used such customizations powered by the XSL-FO transformation, and I would like to achieve something like that, but sadly my FO knowledge is a bit lacking to tackle this challange.
I'm developing right now a customized DITA framework, we are planning to publish a WebHelp and a PDF output generated from the content of a DITA BookMap (consisting of ditamaps and topics). What I would like to do and I don't find yet the best solution for it, is to customize the output in such a way that on the front page besides the title it shows other types of metadata (mainly customized by me in the DTD-s, like product verions, release number, etc.) complying to the style requirements of the company. I have been experimenting with the DITA Map to PDF with HTML5 and CSS transformation scenario and building a custom CSS, though it seems it doesn't allow for a lot of customization. I would like to ask for some advice whether to rather switch to the XSL-FO based transformation scenario, and if so where to begin to put the customization?
Another task would be to include a table of the changes also collected from the metadata section of the Bookmap, which could be done easily if I get right the first section. But I could use some kind of directive in this respect.
At my last job we used such customizations powered by the XSL-FO transformation, and I would like to achieve something like that, but sadly my FO knowledge is a bit lacking to tackle this challange.