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Hi,

Is it possible to change the 1:1 mapping of topics to HTML files in output?

I am using DITA-OT and using the XHTML transformation scenario. I have nested topicrefs in my ditamap, and what I want to do is to generate a single HTML file for each second level heading, rather than have a separate HTML file for each topic. For example:

ditamap hierarchy:
1. Topic 1
1.1 Topic 2
1.2 Topic 3
1.2.1 Topic 4
1.2.2 Topic 5
1.3 Topic 6
2. Topic 7
2.1 Topic 8
etc

What I want is to generate output files that contain:

HTML_1 - Topic 1
HTML_2 - Topic 2
HTML_3 - Topics 3,4 and 5
HTML_4 - Topic 6
HTML_5 - Topic 7
HTML_6 - Topic 8

Anything that rolls up the files would be helpful. Is it possible?

Thanks,

John

Hi John,

Unfortunately the way in which the DITA OT XHTML transformation is constructed generates an HTML file for each DITA topic so I don't think this is possible. Maybe you should also ask around on the DITA Users List.

Regards,
Radu

Hi,

Just for information, there is an attribute called chunk that you can use in the ditamap to control this type of output, see http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/OS ... nking.html

Cheers!

Hi John,

Did not know about this one
Thanks for updating the thread as other users might be interested in this.

Regards,
Radu