[oXygen-user] Preventing oXygen XML Author/Editor from overwriting commonltr.css?

[Radu Coravu]

  Hi Yves,

This is regular DITA Open Toolkit behavior.
There are some alternatives I can think of to achieve what you want 
(ordered from best to worst):
1) Use a custom CSS file which overwrites the customltr.css selectors 
and is specified in the transformation scenario in the "Parameters" 
using the "args.css" property.
2) Make your modifications to the original CSS directly in the 
"OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\frameworks\dita\DITA-OT\resource\" folder.
3) You can make modifications to the build scripts to stop overwriting 
the CSS.
Look in the build_preprocess.xml file for the target called "copy-css". 
The copying is done:
<copy todir="${user.csspath.real}">
<fileset dir="${dita.resource.dir}" includes="*.css"></fileset>
</copy>
4) [Hack] As far as I know ANT never overwrites a newer file with an 
older one so you can set a created date "in the future" for the 
commonltr.css located in the output directory

If anybody else knows other alternatives (or the right way for this 
customization to be done) please contribute.

Regards,
Radu

Radu Coravu
<oXygen/>   XML Editor, Schema Editor and XSLT Editor/Debugger
http://www.oxygenxml.com


On 9/1/2010 2:55 PM, Yves Barbion wrote:
> Hi group
>
> I generate XHTML from my ditamap. In this process, the commonltr.css file in
> the OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\frameworks\dita\DITA-OT\resource\ folder gets copied
> to the output directory. However, I'd like to use a customized commonltr.css
> file in the output folder, but keep the original commonltr.css file in the
> OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\frameworks\dita\DITA-OT\resource\ folder.
>
> Is there an elegant way to do this?
>
> When I regenerate output, I see that the commonltr.css file in the output
> folder is overwritten.
>
> Thanks.
>
>