Hi, I’m currently evaluating the personal edition of XML Editor and XSLUtility. Overall, I really enjoy using these products and am considering purchasing the xde-usr license and XSLUtility. I really like these products and appreciate that I can run them on MacOs (unlike something like Madcap Flare or FrameMaker).
I have a question regarding the DITA to PDF transformation using the ditatoPDF conversion specification (Apache FOP): I have a use case where I currently use the outputclass attribute, giving it a value like emphasis01, emphasis02, etc. I can then use this class with a CSS selector to style specific elements in the HTML output. I can do this just by updating the CSS stylesheet, even without using XSLUtility. Ideally, I could also use the outputclass when using the ditatoPDF transformation in XSLUtility. But I don’t see an attribute set associated with the outputclass attribute. (My current workaround is to make use of an unused element type in my XML doc—uicontrol—and then I’m doing the custom styling in the XSLUtility based on that.) So is there any way to add an “outputclass = <value>” to the XSL customization? That would help tremendously and I could simply use the outputclass attribute in the XML Editor to set up a few styling things I need in both HTML and PDF outputs. Similarly, it would be nice to have a way to convert a “boolean=yes" or “boolean=no" so that I could transform these guys to a “green checkmark” or “red checkbox” or some UTF character while doing the conversion. Is it possible to do either of these things with the current version of XSLUtility? I might just be missing something. Or would it be possible to add something like this to the conversion options? Thanks so much! Dan McIntosh
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