Gosh, I cannot believe I committed this elementary error with the namespace. I absolutely knew that you guys use the OASIS version, but managed to go blind and not see that I had been using the IBM version on ALL my DITA stuff.
That accounted for most of the issues. The rest is just the usual detail-work of picking through the config files and making sure the right thing calls the right thing in the right way. Thanks for your efforts. And thanks again for a good product. Joe On Wed, 2006-09-20 at 11:13 +0200, Hussein Shafie wrote: > J.D. Williams wrote: > > > > Attached find a different dtd and mod file for my syllabus > > specialization of a DITA topic. > > Please find attached to this email a working configuration for your DITA > customization. > > I had to do too many changes (including to yours DTDs: no IBM stuff > please, we switched to OASIS!) to have something that works. > > I'll not attempt to explain these changes here. Everything you need to > known is explained in > http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/index.html. > Please *carefully* study what I did. *Every* *detail* *is* *important*. > > Note that the attached configuration (directory syllabus/) must be > installed *side* *by* *side* with the stock dita_dtd_configuration/. > That is, to make it easier maintaining the customization, I preferred > not to mix it with the stock DITA configuration. > > Two caveats are worth mentioning: > > [1] if you have dita_dtd_configuration/dita.xxe and > syllabus/syllabus.xxe installed side by side and that both > configurations are called "DITA", then XXE will pick > dita_dtd_configuration/dita.xxe. > > This is not what we want, therefore the dirty trick is to rename > syllabus/syllabus.xxe to syllabus/0syllabus.xxe > > [2] If you want to use "Convert to HTML" and "Convert to PDF" then, > *unfortunately* you'll also have to patch > dita_dtd_configuration/dost/catalog-dita.xml and add to it: > > --- > <!-- jdwilliamsinfodesign DTDs --> > > <public publicId="-//JDW//DTD JDW Syllabus//EN" > uri="../../syllabus/syllabus.dtd"/> > <public publicId="-//JDW//ELEMENTS JDW Syllabus//EN" > uri="../../syllabus/syllabus.mod"/> > --- > (dita_dtd_configuration/dost/catalog-dita.xml is part of the bundled > DITA Open toolkit) > > Note that writing syllabus.css was not really needed, using the stock > CSS "DITA topic (classed)" works fine and in fact better than > syllabus.css. Please use the View menu to give "DITA topic (classed)" a > test drive. >
