Thank-you very much! I'll wait until my new laptop has been delivered and I have my XML Mind up to date, then enthusiastically experiment. It will be a real help to me to be able to use the status attribute to highlight changes between published versions.
On 30 June 2015, Hussein Shafie <huss...@xmlmind.com> wrote: > > My real requirement for tracking changes in XXE, as I mentioned before, > > is to be able to use the DITA status attribute to drive output > > formatting: to highlight differences in a new version of a publication, > > I want to be able to say (for instance) "any content tagged with > > status='new' is output in green". As far as I remember, this wasn't > > possible out of the box last time I asked; I'd have to roll up my > > sleeves and tussle with xslt. > > > > * is this still the case? > > > No. > > > > > > > * is there any chance colour-coding based on attribute values might be > > built in in a future version of XXE? > > > > > Yes. > > Note that your feature request is not related to change tracking, nor to > XMLmind XML Editor. > > You simply want XMLmind DITA Converter (<http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/),> the > DITA processor which happens to be embedded in XMLmind XML Editor, to render > the "status" attribute. > > <http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.2/os/spec/common/select-atts.html> > > > > --- > PS: Using the "Easy Profiling" add-on (installed by default), XMLmind XML > Editor can render the status attribute on *screen*. > > See attached screenshot. > > See attached "status.profiles", which specifies how to render the "new" and > "deleted" values of the "status" attribute. > > Tutorial: > <http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_tutorial/easy_profiling/index.html> > >
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