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Topicmeta under topichead not applied to webhelp output
Posted: Tue Oct 28, 2025 4:03 pm
by ecccc
Hi,
I have the following map structure:
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<map>
<topicmeta>
<prodinfo>
<prodname>Product A</prodname>
</prodinfo>
</topicmeta>
<topichead navtitle="Title">
<topicmeta>
<prodinfo>
<prodname>Subcategory of product A</prodname>
</prodinfo>
</topicmeta>
</topichead>
</map>
Only the map-level prodname metadata ends up in the webhelp output as a meta element, the topicmeta under topichead is not added. If I remove the map-level prodname, there is no prodname meta element in the output. I also tried using the @lockmeta="no" attribute but it doesn't do anything (in fact it seems that it's not implemented at all in DITA-OT). How can I fix this?
Re: Topicmeta under topichead not applied to webhelp output
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 2:42 pm
by julien_lacour
Hello,
Could you indicate which version of Oxygen you are using?
Your example is rather incomplete, making it hard to understand your goal. Do you need these metadata to appear in certain topics?
You can check the DITA 1.3 Specification for more details about
metadata and how they cascade. If you are interested into cascading these attributes from map to map, you should also check
this topic.
And you're right, there's no lockmeta support in DITA-OT, mainly because it has been discontinued in DITA 2.0.
Regards,
Julien
Re: Topicmeta under topichead not applied to webhelp output
Posted: Wed Oct 29, 2025 3:11 pm
by ecccc
Hi Julien,
My editor version is 27.1.
My intention is to have the map-level prodinfo in the metadata of all the topics in the output and the topichead-level prodinfo in all the child topics of said topichead. As far as I understood, this is how it should work also according to the article you linked, but I'm not seeing it in the output (as meta elements in the individual HTML files).
Re: Topicmeta under topichead not applied to webhelp output
Posted: Thu Oct 30, 2025 11:58 am
by julien_lacour
Hi,
Unfortunately the DITA specification only mentions map-level topicmeta cascading, there's no mention of layers or levels of metadata, where each group of topics will get the metadata from its parent topichead or topicgroup.
Regards,
Julien