Actually, I was not able to get it to work. I copied the file from a previous version and used it instead.
By the way, when will the "Optional:" flag in procedure steps be available? According to some previous digest issues (see below), it should be available now, but it doesn't work for me. I have specified my steps as <cmd importance="optional"> and set mark-important-steps to yes in my transform parameters, but "Optional:" does not appear on marked steps in the output. I have had to use a conditionally processed <ph> elements for PDF output to include this phrase. A lot of work for a workaround. Really looking forward to the Optional flag working. REFERENCES TO OPTIONAL TAG IN PREVIOUS SUPPORT messages: ------------------------------ Message: 6 Date: Fri, 11 Oct 2013 13:04:01 +0200 From: Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> To: Niels Grundtvig Nielsen <[email protected]> Cc: "[email protected]" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: Re: [ditac] [XXE] optional steps in DITA tasks Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=ISO-8859-1; format=flowed On 10/11/2013 12:12 PM, Niels Grundtvig Nielsen wrote: > Working in a DITA task, I enter a <step> element and set the > importance attribute to "optional" from the attribute value pulldown. > It looks as though the attribute value is set, but there is no visible > "Optional" > marker in .pdf output, either from topic or form calling topic in a > bookmap. Is there something I need to enable? > No. We simply forgot to generate the "Optional" text in the output. We'll change this in the next release. ------------------------------ Message: 3 Date: Mon, 17 Nov 2014 11:40:04 +0100 From: Hussein Shafie <[email protected]> To: Niels Grundtvig Nielsen <[email protected]> Cc: "'[email protected]'" <[email protected]>, [email protected] Subject: Re: [ditac] [XXE] optional steps in DITA Message-ID: <[email protected]> Content-Type: text/plain; charset=windows-1252; format=flowed On 11/17/2014 11:20 AM, Niels Grundtvig Nielsen wrote: > Just been looking at how to identify optional steps in a task ? > setting the 'importance' attribute to 'optional' seemed like a good idea. > Unfortunately, this isn't flagging the step as optional either in .pdf > or in WebHelp. What else should I be doing? Please specify XSLT stylesheet parameter: mark-important-steps with value: yes Description: XSLT stylesheet parameter mark-important-steps=yes (default value is "no") allows to generate a "Required" (respectively "Optional") label for step and substep elements having an importance attribute set to "required" (resp. "optional"). More information: http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/webhelp/xsltParams.html#xsltParams__mark-important-steps Thank you, Julie -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Monday, March 16, 2015 9:46 AM To: Julie McHam Cc: [email protected] Subject: Re: [ditac] FW: Changing task labels On 03/16/2015 04:15 PM, Julie McHam wrote: > Hi Hussein, > > I had modified this file a couple of versions ago and it worked fine. This > time, I added a message line for the context element because the line did not > exist. I have attached the file. > I'm sorry but I don't understand what you have done. --- <message name="context">About this task</message> --- already exists in the stock "xsl/common/messages/en.xml" file and always had. Having 2 <message name="context"> in the "en.xml" file, stock message: --- <message name="context">About this task</message> --- plus your custom message: --- <message name="context">Procedure summary</message> --- gives me *exactly* the error message you have reported. (I checked that.) Therefore my explanation below appeared to make sense. Anyway, I'm glad you managed to solve your problem by yourself. > Thank you, > Julie > > -----Original Message----- > From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] > Sent: Saturday, March 14, 2015 1:59 AM > To: Julie McHam > Cc: [email protected] > Subject: Re: [ditac] FW: Changing task labels > > On 03/13/2015 11:14 PM, Julie McHam wrote: >> Hi again, >> >> I found where to change the text label, but I can't get it to work. >> Here is what I did. Perhaps you can tell me what I am doing incorrectly? >> >> In my DITA task topic, I coded this after the <prereq> element and >> before the <steps> element: >> >> <context> <!-- Fast path for advanced users --> >> <ol> >> >> <li>Open the View Cash Control page.</li> >> >> <li>Specify search criteria on the Search tab.</li> >> >> <li>View JV transactions on the Details tab.</li> >> </ol> >> </context> >> >> I added this line to the en.xml file: >> >> <message name="context">Procedure summary </message> > > Please do not *add* the above line to the "en.xml" file. > > Instead please *replace* existing stock message (the 2nd message of the > "en.xml" file): > > <message name="context">About this task</message> > > by your custom message: > > <message name="context">Procedure summary</message> > > > >> >> When I use the XSL Utility (5.1.0) to convert the DITA source to >> DOCX, I get this fatal error: >> >> fatal error reported by the XSLT engine: A sequence of more than one >> item is not allowed as the first argument of string() (<message/>, >> <message/>) ; SystemID: >> file:/C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/XMLmind_XSL_UtilityPro5_1/addon/conf >> i >> g/dita/xsl/common/commonUtil.xsl; >> Line#: 664; Column#: -1 >> >> cannot transform "S:\ITS\dita_galaxy\output\FinancialManuals\Test.ditac" >> to "S:\ITS\dita_galaxy\output\FinancialManuals\Test.fo" using >> file:/C:/Program%20Files%20(x86)/XMLmind_XSL_UtilityPro5_1/addon/config/dita/xsl/fo/its_custom_fo.xsl: >> A sequence of more than one item is not allowed as the first argument >> of >> string() (<message/>, <message/>) >> >> java.lang.RuntimeException: Conversion "DitaToDocx_gweb" has failed >> with exit code 5. >> >> The file converted properly and with no errors before I added the >> <message> element above to the en.xml file. I don't understand what >> the fatal error message means. I attached a copy of the en.xml file >> so you could see the whole file. >> >> Thank you, >> >> Julie >> >> *From:*Julie McHam >> *Sent:* Friday, March 13, 2015 2:53 PM >> *To:* [email protected] >> *Subject:* Changing task labels >> >> Hi Hussein. >> >> How would I change the text of the labels that appear in a DITA task >> topic? Specifically, I want to change the <abstract> element label >> from "About this task" to "Procedure summary". >> >> Thank you, >> >> Julie >> >> Julie McHam >> >> Technical Writer >> >> Riverside County Office of Education >> >> Division of Administration and Business Services >> >> Information Technology Services >> >> 951-826-6800 >> >> FAX: 951-826-6451 >> >> >> >> >> -- >> XMLmind DITA Converter Support List >> [email protected] >> http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support >> > > > > > -- > XMLmind DITA Converter Support List > [email protected] > http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support > -- XMLmind DITA Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support
