Oxygen XML Forum

Hi,

When I use a reltable to create links between topics, the PDF output contains the shortdesc info after the link. I only want the link to display. Is there a way to disable shortdesc output for links in PDF?

Thanks in advance,
Heather

Hi Heather,

You have probably set the parameter args.fo.include.rellinks to all because by default rel links are not shown in the PDF output.

There does not seem to be a parameter to control the inclusion of the short description along with the link.

In the XSLT stylesheet:
OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT/demo/fo/xsl/fo/links.xsl

there is a template call:
which is responsible for inserting the link shortdesc.
You could try commenting it out or performing a customization which overwrites the template: and does not delegate to the shortdescription computation.

Regards,
Radu

Hi Radu,

Thanks for your help. I have args.fo.include.rellinks set to nofamily because I want the reltable links to display.

I tried commenting out the code you suggested, as follows:
<!-- <xsl:call-template name="insertLinkShortDesc">
<xsl:with-param name="destination" select="$destination"/>
<xsl:with-param name="element" select="$element"/>
<xsl:with-param name="linkScope" select="$linkScope"/>
</xsl:call-template> -->

But when I run the transform I get the following error:
[echo] Loading stylesheet /Users/heather/Downloads/oxygenAuthor/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT/demo/fo/xsl/fo/topic2fo_shell_1.0_fop.xsl
[java] Error at xsl:choose on line 54 column 21 of links.xsl:
[java] XTSE0010: Only xsl:when and xsl:otherwise are allowed within xsl:choose
[java] Failed to compile stylesheet. 1 error detected.

Have I missed something? I'm not sure what you mean by 'perform a customization', do I need to add the code you mention somewhere in links.xsl? I've searched the DITA Yahoo mailing list but I haven't found a solution.

Thanks
Heather

Hi Heather,

You correctly commented out the call template.

But from what the error looks like I think that you made one extra modification in the template:
which made an <xsl:choose> construct invalid so you should revert that change.

Regards,
Radu

Whoops! I reverted the change and now the PDF is publishing without the shortdesc for related links. Thanks for your help.

Cheers
Heather

Radu, I also want to comment out this template but because the template already contains comments, I get the error message that the string "--" is not permitted within comments.

What am I doing wrong as Heather obviously didn't run into this problem?

Thanks a lot!

Hi Janette,

Yes, the sequence "--" is not allowed in XML comments.
But if you select the entire content, right click and choose Toggle Comment the trick that Oxygen does is to also escape the "--" sequence to something like "-\-".
Afterwards you can use the same action to un-comment the commented-out fragment.

Regards,
Radu