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Frameset in DITA XHTML output
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:08 am
by asw66
Hi there,
I'm using Oxygen 9.2, and the default XHTML output doesn't generate a frameset. How do I change this?
Thanks
Andrew W.
Re: Frameset in DITA XHTML output
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 8:38 am
by Radu
Dear Andrew,
Oxygen uses the DITA Open Toolkit to publish DITA to various output formats.
The toolkit is located in the
{$OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR}/frameworks/dita/DITA-OT directory.
The ANT
dita2xhtml target which builds XHTML output needs to be customized for publishing XHTML framesets.
You can see the link below for further details:
http://www.ditainfocenter.com/eclipsehe ... meset.html
If you encounter problems please write us at
http://www.oxygenxml.com/techSupport.html and I will try to provide you with step by step instructions.
Regards,
Radu
Re: Frameset in DITA XHTML output
Posted: Tue Jul 01, 2008 2:01 pm
by Radu
Dear Andrew,
If you use the default DITA OT XHTML transformation it creates a directory "out" in the same folder where the map is located.
In that directory you must create a file called "index.html" with the following content:
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<html>
<head>
<meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=UTF-8"></meta>
<title>DITA Open Toolkit User Guide</title>
<!-- The following two lines cause the default styling for the navigation frame
to be the same as the content frame. -->
<link href="CSS/commonltr.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
<link href="CSS/DITAOTUG_CSS.css" type="text/css" rel="stylesheet" />
</head>
<!-- The left-hand navigation frame is 30% of the available space -->
<!-- The right-hand content frame takes up the rest of the available space -->
<frameset cols="30%,*">
<!-- tocwin is the navigation frame -->
<frame name="tocwin" src="toc.html"></frame>
<!-- contentwin is the content frame -->
<frame name="contentwin" src="toc.html"></frame>
</frameset>
</html>
Then edit the default DITA OT XHTML scenario that you are using in Oxygen and in the "Parameters" tab set the value of "args.xhtml.toc" to "toc" instead of "index".
The output main html file will thus be named "toc.html" and Oxygen will open it at the end of the transformation.
Open manually the "index.html" file in the browser. It contains the "toc.html" in the left frame and the clicked links will be opened in the right one.
Hope this helps,
Regards,
Radu
Re: Frameset in DITA XHTML output
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 1:49 am
by asw66
Thanks Radu, that's working well.
Cheers!
Re: Frameset in DITA XHTML output
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 2:10 am
by asw66
By the way, can I request a slicker implementation of the frameset output soon?
I'm happy to have this working, of course, but in the longer term it would be highly desirable to get frameset output by simply adjusting one or two parameters.
Thanks again,
Andrew W.
Re: Frameset in DITA XHTML output
Posted: Wed Jul 02, 2008 8:51 am
by Radu
Hi Andrew,
We will consider this for a future version.
Regards,
Radu