Thank you.
Up to now, I have been using the "plain ditamap" but my document is becoming
more complex so I probably should be using a Bookmap instead.
I want to achieve
... Title field to appear in Main Body
... Title field to appear in the toc
... An alternative (e.g. navtitle) to appear in the footer
I will experiment using {{chapter-title}} and {{section1-title}} in a bookmap
and see what difference that makes.
Sorry to keep asking for help in this way but there is a lot to learn in both
DITA and using XMLMind. But I am overall impressed with XMMLMind, it is an
excellent software product.
Vic Steadman
Executive Consultant
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-----Original Message-----
From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]]
Sent: 25 September 2013 20:17
To: Vic Steadman
Cc: [email protected]
Subject: Re: [ditac] Output to pdf - Removing header separator
On 09/25/2013 06:54 PM, Vic Steadman wrote:
> Thank you once again for your past help but may I ask one more question.
>
> Is it possible to include the value of the ID attribute in the footer?
No. You are limited to the {{XXX}} variables. See
http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/xsltParams.html#xsltParams__header_footer_spec
>
> I tried changing my data to use the ID field as the topic title with the
> "real title" as <navtitle> and then placing {{topic-title}} in the footer. I
> thought that setting loctitle = true would force the use of the navtitle in
> the body of the document, and so give the result I want, but this does not
> work.
>
A locked navtitle is currently used:
* in the automatically generated TOC of the document.
* as a ``running header'' (which is what you want).
I've retested this and it works fine.
The variables which are used to specify ``running headers'' (or footers) are
{{chapter-title}} and {{section1-title}}, not {{topic-title}}.
{{topic-title}} is substituted with the actual title of the topic and not by
its navtitle.
Therefore if you use a bookmap, specify {{chapter-title}} and
{{section1-title}} in your header/footer XSLT parameters.
And if you use a plain map, specify {{section1-title}} in your header/footer
XSLT parameters. Note that with a plain map, the ``running header'' captures
the text of only the topmost topics of the map (that is, ``section1'' topics).
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