[oXygen-user] DITA-OT & Oxygen

[Coravu Radu]

Hi John,

See some answers below:

John Fitzpatrick wrote:
>
> I’ve created a two-pane XHTML publishing output using DITA-OT 1.4.3. 
> This XHTML Knowledgebase has a search facility and JavaScript 
> collapsible TOC, both of which were implemented using custom plugins 
> to the vanilla DITA-OT v1.4.3. I’d like to be able to use this output 
> format alongside our other outputs from Oxygen.
>
> To publish my output I have to run the following within a DOS shell
>
> ant -f my_build_file.xml
>
> Oxygen runs transformations as follows
>
> "c:\program files\oxygen xml editor 10.3\jre/bin/java" -Xmx256m 
> -classpath "C:\Program Files\Oxygen XML Editor 
> 10.3/tools/ant/lib/ant-launcher.jar" etc ... ... ...
>
> 1) Can I my ‘ant’ scripts directly with oXygen‘s version of DITA-OT?
>
You can edit an Oxygen transformation scenario and in the "Advanced" tab 
you can set your own "Custom build file" path.

> 2) Do I need to change my build file to be run using Java at command line?
>
Executing the "ant.bat" from the command line is almost identical to the 
path Oxygen is using to run ANT for DITA OT transformations.
>
> 3) How do I integrate custom build files with oXygen?
>
See number 1.
>
> 4) Can I integrate plugins into the DITA-OT version that’s shipped 
> with oXygen?
>
Oxygen comes with DITA OT 1.4.3 bundled in the 
"OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\frameworks\dita" directory.
Besides the standard bundle we also have some patches in the build files 
for various features.
You should be able to integrate plugins in the version shipped with 
Oxygen in the same way you would with the toolkit downloaded from the 
web site.
>
> Thanks
>
> John
>
Regards,
Radu

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