On 10/11/2012 04:19 PM, Frank Glaes wrote: > Hi Hussein, > thanks for your quick support! > Both workarounds work fine for me. > > When do you think will XMLmind DITA Converter support this type of glossary?
*Probably* next XMLmind DITA Converter release, which means in less than one month. > It seems to be a standard DITA feature. As mentioned earlier DITA OT supports > it without problems. > > Thanks and greetings, > Frank > > ________________________________________ > From: Hussein Shafie [[email protected]] > Sent: Monday, October 08, 2012 1:22 PM > To: Frank Glaes > Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] > Subject: Re: [XFC] FW: Convertion error: A sequence of more than one item is > not allowed as the first operand of 'eq' > > After looking at your sample ditamap, we have realized that the > following way of authoring a glossary is absolutely not supported by > XMLmind DITA Converter, the DITA processor included in XMLmind XSL Utility: > > --- > <glossarylist> > <topicref href="glossary_entry1.dita"/> > <topicref href="glossary_entry2.dita"/> > <topicref href="glossary_entry3.dita"/> > <topicref href="glossary_entry4.dita"/> > <topicref href="glossary_entry5.dita"/> > </glossarylist> > --- > > Why that? Well...it's a basically an omission in our implementation! > > Therefore this is not a simple bug we could fix today in order to very > quickly send you a patch. It will take some time to support this style > of glossarylist. Sorry for that. > > Meanwhile, we suggest A) or B): > > Workaround A) > ------------- > > 1) to move your glossary out of<booklists>, that is: > > --- > <backmatter> > <booklists> > <figurelist/> > <tablelist/> > <glossarylist> > <topicref href="glossary_app_context.dita"/> > </glossarylist> > <indexlist/> > </booklists> > </backmatter> > --- > > becomes: > > --- > <backmatter> > <topicref href="glossary.dita"/> > <booklists> > <figurelist/> > <tablelist/> > <indexlist/> > </booklists> > </backmatter> > --- > > 2) to group all your<glossentry>s into a single<glossgroup>. Let's > suppose file glossary.dita contains such<glossgroup>: > > --- > <!DOCTYPE glossgroup PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Glossary Group//EN" > "glossgroup.dtd"> > <glossgroup id="glossary_app_context"> > <title>Glossary</title> > > <glossentry id="glossentry-app_context-1" xml:lang="de-DE"> > <glossterm>APP_CONTEXT</glossterm> > > <glossdef>Definition...</glossdef> > </glossentry> > > <glossentry id="glossentry-app_context-2" xml:lang="de-DE"> > <glossterm>APP_CONTEXT</glossterm> > > <glossdef>Definition...</glossdef> > </glossentry> > </glossgroup> > --- > > > Workaround B) > ------------- > > Alternatively, what follows seems to work too: > > --- > <backmatter> > <booklists> > <figurelist/> > <tablelist/> > <glossarylist href="glossary.dita"/> > <indexlist/> > </booklists> > </backmatter> > --- > > Notice that here too, all your<glossentry>s are grouped into a single > <glossgroup>. > -- XMLmind FO Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xfc-support
