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I have made custom DITA DTD shells for a team of writers, using a custom doctype in the standard way. I've created custom Oxygen map and topic templates that use these doctypes and installed them in the authors' New dialog box. But authors still sometimes create topics with the standard DTDs, which causes problems. What is a good way to disable the standard DTDs, that is as easy as possible to propagate to the whole team?

I implemented the custom doctypes as a DITA OT plugin for each author's Oxygen installation.

Thanks,
Mark

Hi Mark,

But authors still sometimes create topics with the standard DTDs, which causes problems. What is a good way to disable the standard DTDs, that is as easy as possible to propagate to the whole team?

I think that you actually want the new file templates which are provided by the default DITA framework configuration not to be shown anymore in the New dialog wizard, right?
Could you tell me how you added your new file templates to the New wizard dialog? Did you do that by editing or extending the DITA framework configuration in the Preferences->Document Type Associations page?

Regards,
Radu

Hi Radu,

I put DITA template files in <Oxygen install dir>/frameworks/dita/templates/<company>.

Then I went to Options > Preferences > Editor > Templates > Document Templates and added the template dir above.

Removing the standard DITA templates would be good, what's a good way to do that?

Removing the standard DITA doctypes would be even better. Would I needed to edit the catalog file under <oxygen>\frameworks\dita\DITA-OT?

Thanks,
Mark Giffin

Hi Mark,

What Oxygen version do your clients have?

Please see some answers below:

I put DITA template files in <Oxygen install dir>/frameworks/dita/templates/<company>.
Then I went to Options > Preferences > Editor > Templates > Document Templates and added the template dir above.

Any of these approaches you tried should have the same final consequence of having your templates appear in the "File->New" wizard.
If you do both the approaches in the File->New wizard you will probably have duplicate file templates available for your specialization.

Removing the standard DITA templates would be good, what's a good way to do that?

You could try to remove them from:

<Oxygen install dir>/frameworks/dita/templates/

Or in the Preferences->"Document Type Association" page you could extend (Extend button) the "DITA" framework and make changes to the list of new file templates folders it defines. Then disable the original "DITA" document type association so that only the extension is enabled and provides new file templates.

Removing the standard DITA doctypes would be even better. Would I needed to edit the catalog file under <oxygen>\frameworks\dita\DITA-OT?

By default Oxygen uses the XML catalog located in:

<oxygen>\frameworks\dita\DITA-OT\catalog-dita.xml

to resolve DTD Public IDs to DTD resources.
That main DITA OT catalog has mappings in it like:
and at the end it has references to particular plugin contributed catalogs (among which is your own specialization plugin).

So potentially even if your plugin's catalog.xml adds mappings for the default DITA Public IDs to not existing resources and you integrate your plugin in the DITA OT, the mappings which exists higher up in the catalog-dita.xml will have more priority. So you cannot elegantly override the XML catalog mappings for the base DTDs from your integrated specialization plugin.

Regards,
Radu