Thanks very much for looking into this. On Thu, Mar 1, 2012 at 10:06 AM, Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> wrote:
> We are currently working on ditac 2.2, that's why we have reexamined your > support request. Sorry for this delay. > > > > On 02/08/2012 05:51 PM, Darren Carlton wrote: > >> Problem: >> ditac applies the "product" value to all child topicrefs. >> >> Details: >> I have a ditamap that contains the following entries: >> <topicref product="ShowProduct" href=foo.dita"> >> <topicref product="HideProduct" href="bar.dita"/> >> </topicref> >> >> My ditaval file contains these entries: >> <prop att="product" val="ShowProduct" action="include"></prop> >> <prop att="product" val="HideProduct" action="exclude"></prop> >> >> I would expect bar.dita to be excluded from the output, but it is >> included. >> >> If I remove product="ShowProduct" from the parent topicref, bar.dita is >> excluded: >> <topicref href=foo.dita"> >> <topicref product="HideProduct" href="bar.dita"/> >> </topicref> >> >> It's almost as if the child topicref inherits the product attribute >> value from the parent. Is this intended behavior? >> > > In fact, yes. The "product" conditional processing attributes is additive > and may inherit some of its values from its ancestors. Thus: > > --- > > <topicref product="ShowProduct" href=foo.dita"> > <topicref product="HideProduct" href="bar.dita"/> > </topicref> > --- > > is equivalent to: > > --- > <topicref product="ShowProduct" href=foo.dita"> > <topicref product="ShowProduct HideProduct" href="bar.dita"/> > </topicref> > --- > > That's why topic bar.dita is *not* excluded by ditac. > > --> See http://docs.oasis-open.org/**dita/v1.2/os/spec/common/** > select-atts.html#select-atts<http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/common/select-atts.html#select-atts> > --- > product > > Contains the name of the product to which the element applies. This is a > property attribute which supports conditional processing for filtering or > flagging. If no value is specified, but the attribute is specified on an > ancestor within a map or within the related-links section, the value will > cascade from the closest ancestor. The attribute takes a space-delimited > set of values. > --- > > --> See > http://docs.oasis-open.org/**dita/v1.2/os/spec/archSpec/** > cascading-in-a-ditamap.html<http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/archSpec/cascading-in-a-ditamap.html> > --- > Attributes and metadata that cascade > The following attributes and metadata elements cascade: > > Attributes > > * @audience, @platform, @product, @otherprops, @rev > > ... > > Cascading is additive for attributes and metadata elements that accept > multiple values. For attributes that take a single value, the closest value > defined on a containing element takes effect. > --- > > > > >> >> Ditac Version: >> ditac: INFO: ditac version is 2.1.0_01 >> >> OS used to run ditac: >> Ubuntu 10.10 >> >> Java runtime version: >> java version "1.6.0_24" >> >> ditac command-line (launched through ant) >> >> <target name="ditac2javahelp"> >> <java classname="com.xmlmind.ditac.**convert.Converter" >> fork="true" >> failonerror="true" >> classpathref="maven.**dependency.classpath" >> maxmemory="2248m"> >> <arg line="-format xhtml"/> >> <arg line="-xslt2 xhtml ${ditac.dir}/ita/xsl/javahelp/** >> ita-javahelp.xsl"/> >> <arg line="-filter ${dita.input.valfile}"/> >> <!-- Ditac stylesheet parameters --> >> <arg line="-p helpset-basename ${application}_helpset.hs -p map-basename >> ${application}_map.jhm"/> >> <arg line="-p toc-basename ${application}.js -p index-basename >> ${application}_index.xml"/> >> <arg line="-p xsl-resources-directory branding -p css-name >> ${application}.css"/> >> <!-- Output File --> >> <arg line="${output.dir}/_.html"/> >> <!-- Input File --> >> <arg line="${args.input}"/> >> <jvmarg >> value="-Djava.util.logging.**config.file=${basedir}/tools/** >> fop/logging.properties"/> >> <jvmarg >> value="-Dxml.catalog.files=${**ditac.dir}/schema/catalog.xml;** >> ${basedir}/tools/${ita.dita.**dir}/catalog-dita.xml"/> >> </java> >> </target> >> >> >> >> >> -- >> XMLmind DITA Converter Support List >> [email protected] >> http://www.xmlmind.com/**mailman/listinfo/ditac-support<http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support> >> > >
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