On Sat, Mar 27, 2010 at 5:30 AM, Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> wrote:
> Ditac assumes that DITA topics and maps have been created using a > validating XML editor such as XMLmind XML Editor. > Thank you for the clarification, we figured that was probably the answer. By the way XMLmind XML Editor, even free Personal Edition, includes a > very powerful command-line tool called xmltool. See > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/xmltool/index.html > Since we are using this in a commercial context, we cannot use the free version of xmltool, and since we'd only be using it for a double-check validation, we'll probably continue to use the DITA Open Toolkit processing for that side-effect. We'll try to release a new version of ditac which fixes *all* the > problems you have encountered at the same time as XMLmind XSL-FO > Converter v4.4, that is, in 2-3 weeks. > Great! Thank you! > The props attribute is what the new conditionals inherit from, it isn't > > meant to be used directly (just as topic is not meant to be used > directly). > > For topics, this is not that clear: > > Excerpts of > http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/OS/langspec/langref/topic.html : > --- > The <topic> element is the top-level DITA element for a single-subject > topic or article. Other top-level DITA elements that are more > content-specific are <concept>, <task>, <reference>, and <glossary>. > --- > > Moreover my common sense tells me that in some cases, there is nothing > wrong with directly authoring topics. > OK. I don't want to get into a side-discussion about this, I was just using it as a handy example. My impression from the DITA users mailing list is that the DITA experts there strongly recommend customizing/personalizing DITA and not just using it "out of the box" (though a lot of people do that too). I don't have enough experience with DITA yet to take sides in that debate. > > We'll happily accept any contribution which truly improves ditac, > > especially if this improves the *looks* of what is generated by > ditac. > > We are still far from the typographic quality of what was generated > by > > FrameMaker. > > > > > > OK. I won't be looking into that until next week, and will start a new > > thread(s) on this list as appropriate. Foremost concern is deciding how > > to resolve the above issue. > > > > I would suggest an even longer pause if you want next version of ditac > to be released in due time. We are a small company with few developers > and answering support requests, yours and many others on several other > mailing lists, takes an enormous amount of time. > Yes, emails take a lot of time on both sides. Thank you for the answers and the dialog. I'm happy to wait a few weeks for the next release and then move ahead from there. -Doug
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