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DITA Maps Manager with dead links

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 11:50 am
by jelovirt
OS X 10.5.6, Java 1.6, oXygen 10.2

If you have a DITA map

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<map>
<topicref href="about.dita" navtitle="About"/>
</map>
and about.dita does not exist, Maps Manager will show "about.dita" in the tree, instead of using the navtitle "About". You can force the use of navtitle by adding locktitle="yes", but in this case where the topic is not available, I think navtitle should be used in the manager. Expecially for scope="external" the navtitle should be used by default.

Also, the topicref icon could signal that the topic is not available. For scope "peer" or "external" this naturally should not be used.

Re: DITA Maps Manager with dead links

Posted: Tue Apr 21, 2009 3:06 pm
by Radu
Hi Jarno,

Indeed, if the referenced topic does not exist I think we could use the navigation title even if "locktitle" is not specified as "yes".

We registered this request and will discuss it for a future version.

Regards,
Radu

Re: DITA Maps Manager with dead links

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:39 pm
by sevforeman
Oxygen XML Editor 11.2, Professional

Has this feature been implemented is some way? It would be a very useful feature if the DITA Map Editor or main editor showed some type of visual indication when a topic reference cannot be resolved.

Best regards,
Severin Foreman

Re: DITA Maps Manager with dead links

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 5:55 pm
by Radu
Dear Severin,

Oxygen 12 will have an action available on the toolbar of the DITA Maps Manager view called "Validate and Check for Completeness" which will check broken links (topic refs, xrefs, image refs, conrefs, keyrefs, conkeyrefs, etc).
If you are interested in it, contact us to the support address and I'll try to make to you an Oxygen 12 beta available+a trial license for tests.

Regards,
Radu

Re: DITA Maps Manager with dead links

Posted: Fri Apr 30, 2010 6:02 pm
by sevforeman
Dear Radu,

Thank you for the offer. For now, it would be nice to know what your target release date is for version 12. :)

Best,
Severin

Re: DITA Maps Manager with dead links

Posted: Mon May 03, 2010 8:33 am
by Radu
Hi Severin,

Oxygen 12 should probably be released at the end of August this year.

Regards,
Radu