[oXygen-user] dita.temp.dir modified in Author 15.1

[Oxygen XML Editor Support]

Hi Rob,

This is a behavior we added a couple of versions ago, possibly in 14.0.

If the DITA OT transformation is about to start and the configured 
temporary files folder exists and has content inside it, Oxygen will 
create an additional "oxygen_dita_temp" folder inside it and pass that 
as the temporary files folder to the DITA OT.
We did this because one of our users configured the temporary files 
folder to be the same folder in which the DITA Map was located, which 
resulted in the entire DITA content being wiped out by the DITA OT 
process after the transformation was finished.

Usually the DITA OT build process has the parameter "clean.temp" set to 
"yes" which means that the folder is usually deleted at the end of the 
transformation by the DITA OT build files. But probably in your case 
there was a previous transformation which failed and left the folder on 
disk.

So if before starting the transformation the folder "(my map dir)/temp" 
has no content inside it or if the "clean.temp" parameter is set to 
"no", Oxygen will not create the extra "oxygen_dita_temp".

Regards,
Radu

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

On 1/22/2014 6:58 PM, Echlin, Robert wrote:
> Hi
>
> I am using DITA-OT 1.5.4
>
> I am using the dita2eclipsemap functionality.
>
> Some things use dita.temp.dir, which is set on the command line by oXygen.
>
> It is not set to the value I set in the dialog:
>
> -(my map dir)/temp,
>
> but rather to:
>
> -(my map dir)/temp/oxygen_dita_temp
>
> Can you explain why Author 15 adds the extra folder name to the end of
> the “Temporary Files Directory” value that I set in the “Edit DITA
> Scenario” dialog, in the “Output” tab?
>
> This is unexpected behavior for me.
>
> Is there a setting where I can turn off this behavior?
>
> All my very best,
>
> Rob
>
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