Oxygen XML Forum

Posted: **Fri Jan 05, 2018 4:29 am**

My Oxygen project has a .ditamap file that contains the reusable variables for my project. Each variable is defined as a KEYDEF value, and we use different KEYWORD values, with a condition applied, to supply the variable value for different outputs. For example:

Code: Select all


<keydef keys="productNameLong">

<topicmeta>

<keywords>

     <keyword product="product-1">Product One</keyword>

     <keyword product="product-2">Product Two</keyword>

</keywords>

</topicmeta>

</keydef>

In some cases, the KEYDEF is a placeholder for a URL that we want to select when inserting a link (DITA menu > Link > Web Link, Key option), and it has this format:

Code: Select all


<keydef keys="pdn-ma-page" href="https://pdn.pega.com/products/pega-marketing" format="html" scope="external">

    <topicmeta>

      <linktext>https://pdn.pega.com/products/pega-marketing</linktext>

    </topicmeta>

  </keydef>

Question: Is it possible to format an "html" type KEYDEF (like the one shown above) so that both the "href" attribute and "linktext" value can vary, based on the transformation? For example, could I apply the conditional attribute "product" to the LINKTEXT element (e.g., <linktext product="product-1">) to vary the link text, and then somehow also use this same value for the "href" attribute?

Posted: **Fri Jan 05, 2018 11:00 am**

Hi,

You could try something like:

Code: Select all


      <linktext><ph product="prod1">https://pdn.pega.com/products/pega-marketing2</ph><ph product="prod2">https://pdn.pega.com/products/pega-marketing2</ph></linktext>

or redefine completely the key:

Code: Select all

<keydef keys="pdn-ma-page" href="https://pdn.pega.com/products/pega-marketing"

    format="html" scope="external" product="product1">

    <topicmeta>

      <linktext>https://pdn.pega.com/products/pega-marketing</linktext>

    </topicmeta>

  </keydef>

  

  <keydef keys="pdn-ma-page" href="https://pdn.pega.com/products/pega-marketing2"

    format="html" scope="external" product="product2">

    <topicmeta>

      <linktext>https://pdn.pega.com/products/pega-marketing2</linktext>

    </topicmeta>

  </keydef>

Regards,
Radu

Posted: **Fri Jan 05, 2018 7:07 pm**

Thanks Radu! Your suggestion to use an individual KEYDEF element for each condition works well.

Oxygen XML Forum

If an html type of KEYDEF has more than one possible values, can you configure the href attribute to match the URL?

If an html type of KEYDEF has more than one possible values, can you configure the href attribute to match the URL?

Re: If an html type of KEYDEF has more than one possible values, can you configure the href attribute to match the URL?

Re: If an html type of KEYDEF has more than one possible values, can you configure the href attribute to match the URL?