WebHelp: Unwanted <data-about> output

[Frank Ralf]

Hi,

I have a figure with an enclosed <data-about> section in my DITA files, like so:

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<fig id="fig123" class="- topic/fig ">

  <title class="- topic/title ">Merging of text</title>

  <image href="../Figures/MergingText.png"/>

  <data-about type="image" scope="local" class="- topic/data-about ">

    <data name="xoffset" value="1.000pt"/>

    <data name="yoffset" value="1.000pt"/>

  </data-about>

</fig>

This ends in the default WebHelp output as:

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<span style="background-color: yellow;">

<span style="font-weight: bold">[/topic/body/fig/data-about {"- topic/data-about "}) </span>

I've already read "Passing product attribute value to webhelp topics" and suppose I have to modify the [Oxygen-install-dir]\frameworks\dita\DITA-OT\xsl\xslhtml\dita2htmlImpl.xsl XSL file to get rid of this output? Or is this some default behavior I can suppress otherwise?

Kind regards,
Frank

[sorin_ristache]

Hi Frank,

The extra text comes from a bug in the DITA-OT toolkit which you can also experience in the DITA Map XHTML transformation. I will come up shortly with a workaround, or better with a fix for this DITA-OT issue, and I will update this topic as soon as I have the solution.

[Frank Ralf]

Hi Sorin,

Thanks for your quick reply and this information.

[sorin_ristache]

Hi Frank,

I have a quick fix for you: please add the following XSLT template

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  <xsl:template match="*[contains(@class,' topic/data-about ')]"/>

at the end of the following XSLT stylesheet (before the </xsl:stylesheet> closing tag, of course):

OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\frameworks\dita\DITA-OT\plugins\com.oxygenxml.webhelp\xsl\dita\desktop\fixup.xsl

[Frank Ralf]

Hi Sorin,

Thanks for this quick fix. And thanks for getting this fixed in the DITA Open Toolkit

img/data-about element should not be rendered in XHTML output page

Frank