I tried this out as soon as I received your email, and my acronyms are working just fine now.
Thank you so much, Hussein. Julie -----Original Message----- From: Hussein Shafie [mailto:[email protected]] Sent: Saturday, July 15, 2017 1:40 AM To: Julie McHam Cc: [email protected]; [email protected] Subject: Re: [XFC] Acronyms and Spelled Out Forms Do Not Appear in Output On 07/15/2017 01:45 AM, Julie McHam wrote: > I am trying to use DITA to keep track of spelling out acronyms the > first time used within a topic, and then using the acronym for the > remainder of the topic. In the Word files generated using the DITA to > DOCX Transformation with XSL Utility 5.4.5, neither the spelled out > word or the acronym show up. > > > > Here is a sample of my test glossary file (note that I am only using > glossary entries for acronyms, not for term definitions): > > > > <?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?> <!DOCTYPE glossgroup PUBLIC > "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Glossary Group//EN" > "glossgroup.dtd"> > <glossgroup id="acronyms"> > <title>Acronyms</title> > <glossentry id="cde"> > <glossterm>California Department of Education</glossterm> > <glossBody> > <glossSurfaceForm>California Department of Education > (CDE)</glossSurfaceForm> > <glossAlt> > <glossAcronym>CDE</glossAcronym> > </glossAlt> > </glossBody> > </glossentry> > </glossgroup> > > > > Here is what I am coding in my ditamap file: > > > > <backmatter> > <topicref href="common/acronyms.dita" /> > <booklists> > <indexlist/> > </booklists> > </backmatter> > > > > Here is a sample of how I am placing the code in my text: > > > > <li><term>Required SACS codes</term> are defined by the <term > keyref="cde" />. > Test: <abbreviated-form > keyref="abs" />. > They are the minimum set of > SACS codes that your district > <i>must</i> use to report > accounting detail. > All required SACS codes are > available in Galaxy Web. > </li> > > > > I have also tried several other things, like creating my glossary file > with just one entry (not a glossgroup) and placing the reference to > acronyms.dita inside the booklists element, but to no avail. > > > > I have scoured your documentation and forums and cannot locate any > information that will point me in the right direction. Would you > please provide a link to your documentation that describes how to do > this? Or, please explain what I am doing incorrectly. > > Without a keydef for key "cde", there is no way to make something keyref="cde" work. You need to add something like what follows in your map (directly or indirectly, that is, group all your keydefs in a separate file and reference this file from your map): --- <keydef href="glossgroup.dita#cde" keys="cde"/> --- Please find attached to this email a complete working example. References: - "2.3.4.9 Processing key references to generate text or link text", http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/errata01/os/complete/part2-tech-content/archSpec/base/processing-keyref-for-text.html - "3.10.5.2.1 <abbreviated-form>", http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/errata01/os/complete/part2-tech-content/langRef/technicalContent/abbreviated-form.html#abbreviated-form - "3.10.5.2.2 <glossref>", http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/errata01/os/complete/part2-tech-content/langRef/technicalContent/glossref.html#glossref is just another way to specify a keydef: "3.3.2.2 <keydef>", http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dita/v1.3/errata01/os/complete/part2-tech-content/langRef/base/keydef.html#keydef -- XMLmind FO Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xfc-support
