Hello,
I am currently evaluating DITA as a possible toolset for some of our documentation. One showstopper that I see with DITA is that it is very difficult to produce output that shows changes from one version of the document to another. It is possible, but requires a lot of manual markup and/or automated script support. Obviously, word processing programs, such as Word, have long ago solved this problem. That's why I was excited to see that your company had produced a DITA Converter that supports Word 2007 formats. I thought I would be able to use your converter to generate a 'before' and 'after' version of the document in docx format and, then, use Word's document comparison utility to see the differences between the two versions. Unfortunately, when I try to compare 'before' and 'after' versions of some ditac output in Word (using Word 2007's "Compare" function), I get the following error message: "A table in this document has become corrupted" and the comparison fails. Thinking it might be a problem with my DITA content, I tried the same experiment using your ditac manual. Here's my experiment: 1) Create a version of the ditac manual with no filtering enabled: "C:\Data\Downloads\DITAConverter_XMLmind\ditac-1_0_0>bin\ditac.bat -toc -xfc ..\xfc_perso_java-4_3_1\bin\fo2docx.bat out/manual_unfiltered.docx docsrc\manual\manual.ditamap" 2) Create another version of the ditac manual with filtering enabled: "C:\Data\Downloads\DITAConverter_XMLmind\ditac-1_0_0>bin\ditac.bat -filter docsrc\manual\sreen.ditaval -toc -xf c ..\xfc_perso_java-4_3_1\bin\fo2docx.bat out/manual_unfiltered.docx docsrc\manual\manual.ditamap" Open both versions of the document in Word 2007 and use Word's Compare function (not the "Merge") function. During the comparison, I get the above error message. I can recreate this same error with other DITA files that I have created, even though the DITA files have no tables. Do you have any idea what might be causing this error? Here is the requested debugging info: The version of ditac. (Execute "ditac -version" to display this version.) ditac: INFO: ditac version is 1.0.0 The name and version of the OS used to run ditac. Windows XP Professional, Tablet Edition, Service Pack 3 The version of the JavaTM runtime used to run ditac. (Execute "java -version" to display this version.) java version "1.6.0_14" Java(TM) SE Runtime Environment (build 1.6.0_14-b08) Java HotSpot(TM) Client VM (build 14.0-b16, mixed mode, sharing) The exact ditac command line which allows to reproduce the problem. See above If relevant, all the input files (DITA files, image files, etc) needed to run the above command line. The input files in my example are the DITA source files distributed with the DITA converter. The output files, if such files contain what you consider to be defects. (See attached file: manual_unfiltered.docx)(See attached file: manual_filtered.docx) Regards, Chris ~...@-@~ Chris DeMattio Sr. Engineering Manager Seagate Technology, Inc. 389 Disc Drive Longmont, CO 80503 (720) 684-2663 (SeaTEL 8 684-2663) christopher.demattio at seagate.com ------------------------------ This email contains information which may be confidential and/or privileged. Unless you are the addressee (or authorized to receive for the addressee), you may not use, copy or disclose to anyone the message or any information contained in or attached to the email. If you have received the email in error, please destroy it and advise the sender of this email immediately by telephone or email provided herein above. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/ditac-support/attachments/20091002/a9b6e6aa/attachment-0001.htm -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: manual_unfiltered.docx Type: application/octet-stream Size: 203347 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/ditac-support/attachments/20091002/a9b6e6aa/attachment-0002.dll -------------- next part -------------- A non-text attachment was scrubbed... Name: manual_filtered.docx Type: application/octet-stream Size: 202401 bytes Desc: not available Url : http://www.xmlmind.com/pipermail/ditac-support/attachments/20091002/a9b6e6aa/attachment-0003.dll
