[oXygen-user] Editing & Processing DITA on 8.2

[Sorin Ristache]

Hello,

The file extension of an XML document is not important. If it is not 
".xml" just associate that extension (.dita, .ditamap, etc) with the XML 
Editor of oXygen in Options -> Preferences -> File Types. In the next 
version of oXygen the extensions for DITA XML documents will be 
associated by default with the XML Editor which means such files will be 
opened automatically as XML files.

Yes, the DITA stylesheets provided in the Open Toolkit can be used in 
transformation scenarios in oXygen as any other XSLT stylesheets but 
applying a single transformation scenario in oXygen is not enough 
usually. For example to transform a DITA map to HTML you have to follow 
the scenario specified by Open Toolkit which means several linked 
transformations which are probably best executed with a build.xml script 
following the Open Toolkit model.


Regards,
Sorin


Khaled Aly wrote:
> Hello Sorin / oXygen users
> 
> Can anyone provide some guidelines/clues on using DITA 1.0 on oXygen 8.2 
> (while it does not yet incorporate DITA's Open Toolkit), provided the 
> right DTDs are referenced. I got below some specific issues:
> 
> - Filename extensions: although DITA's topic or map markup is 
> well-formed XML and should validate against the corresponding DTD, DITA 
> uses the file name extensions: *.dita and *.ditamap. As far as editing 
> and validating, they seem to validate well with these extensions.
> 
> - Now for OT processors that are available in O2 current version: Saxon 
> 6.5.5 and FOP, can we set transformation scenarios, based on OT supplied 
> XSLT sheets and process them to generate PDF out of a topic file or a 
> map file?
> 
> - This is probably for oXygen support. Siren: is the direction to 
> strictly follow the processing tools and scenarios specified by OT 
> (since they are part of the standard), or can we expect oXygen as an 
> independent vendor to provide further transform scenarios beyond those 
> specified by the OT.
> 
> There is a bit of fuzziness of whether DITA is perceived as an XML 
> application or as a tool. I tend to think of it as an application, but 
> if it is fully dependent on the OT for processing, then it is more like 
> a tool without a specific realization.
> 
> Appreciate your feedback .
> Khaled
> 
> ----- Original Message ----- From: "Oxygen XML Editor support" 
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> To: "Khaled Aly" <>
> Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 10:20 AM
> Subject: Re: DITA?
> 
> 
>> Hello,
>>
>> The next version of oXygen will include DITA support and will be 
>> released in a couple of months.
>>
>>
>> Best regards,
>> Sorin
>>
>> http://www.oxygenxml.com