Hi!
Partially following the advice given below, I am looking into running
the various components of ditac in xproc (calabash) pipelines. When I
run the ditac XSL transformations in calabash I get error messages like
this:
file:/home/kevin/vizdita/ditac-2_4_0/xsl/common/ditacUtil.xsl:917:37:XPST0017:Cannot
find a matching 1-argument function named
{java:com.xmlmind.ditac.xslt.URI}decodeURI(). Note that direct calls to Java
methods are not available under Saxon-HE
I see that saxon HE does indeed not support custom Java functions, and
that the ditac transformations use them. But swapping around the saxon
jar files delivered with ditac and calabash makes no difference:
whatever saxon file is used, ditac works and calabash doesn't. Can you
explain what's going on? Supposing I actually found a solution to this
problem, would I be breaking saxon licensing terms?
Thanks,
Kevin Flynn
On 02/19/2013 10:11 AM, Hussein Shafie wrote:
On 02/19/2013 08:01 AM, Kevin Michael Flynn wrote:
The following questions relate primarily to your XSL server product
which I am currently evaluating, but also to the underlying ditac
functionality.
1 I need to generate a variant of the webhelp output in which the
search tab is suppressed (because search will be provided by an
external solr app). I see that this can be achieved by simply
removing a div from the XHTML template on which the pages are based.
Is this the best way to do it? is there any built in support for
multiple page templates, or will I have to rename the file between
jobs in some way?
2 I also need to be able to produce (for each variant webhelp
"manual"), a single XML file containing indexable text extracted from
all the input DITA files. I cannot see an obvious way to do this as
part of the webhelp generation job - I believe it will be necessary
to create a completely separate job in which ditac chunking is
switched off. Is that true?
3 Finally, for any given manual, I will want to generate a number of
different outputs: PDF, webhelp, the variant webhelp mentioned above,
and possibly the additional XML index file. Is the dita -> ditac
conversion repeated for each output, or is there a way to save and
re-use it for each output?
XMLmind XSL Server is a *high-level* *shrink-wrapped* *product* which
is intended to be used without no further customizations than XSL
stylesheet ones (i.e. customized XSL stylesheets, or more simply
specific XSL stylesheet parameters).
Everything you want can be achieved by embedding XMLmind DITA
Converter (ditac for short) in a custom ``server'' of yours.
Note that ditac has been designed to be used, not only as a
command-line tool, but also as a Java software component. See:
Part III. Embedding XMLmind DITA Converter in a Java™ application
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/manual-7.html
Therefore my friendly advice would be:
* Forget about XMLmind XSL Server.
* Hire a Java developer to embedded ditac in a custom servlet.
* Do the XSL/HTML/JavaScript customizations yourself, as you are
yourself an XML expert.
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PS: FYI, the Web help function of XMLmind DITA Converter (ditac for
short) is implemented by the means of XMLmind Web Help Compiler (whc
for short), another free, open source, well documented, well tested,
component:
http://www.xmlmind.com/whc.shtml
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