create DITA 1.2 general task type

[ElemSrc]

It was my understanding that Oxygen 11.2 validates against the DITA 1.2 specification. However, I am trying to create a task topic and finding that Oxygen is apparently validating against either the 1.1 spec or the strict task topic type of 1.2. Did I misunderstand or is there something I need to do to set Oxygen to validate against the general task topic type of 1.2? Thanks.

[Radu]

Hi,

DITA Tasks are validated against the strict task topic type of DITA 1.2.
DITA General Tasks have a special document type public id (-//OASIS//DTD DITA General Task//EN) and Oxygen supports validating/editing them. Oxygen 12 will probably come with a new file template for easily creating a DITA General Task XML file.

For now you can save the XML below to the OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR/frameworks/dita/templates/topic/ directory with the name General Task.xml and when creating a new file from templates you will also have the new General Task template available.

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<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE task PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA General Task//EN" "http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/OS/dtd/task.dtd">

<task id="taskId">

    <title>Task title</title>

    <shortdesc/>

    <taskbody>

        <context>

            <p>Context for the current task</p>

        </context>

        <steps>

            <step>

                <cmd>Task step.</cmd>

            </step>

        </steps>

    </taskbody>

</task>

Regards,
Radu