I asked Robert Anderson to comment on this issue, Hussein. Robert is the current project manager for the DITA Open Toolkit, and maintains the DTDs and Schemas for the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. He informed me,
"The DITAArch attribute was #FIXED in DITA 1.0, so if you have any value other than "1.0" and use the 1.0 DTDs, it will generate an error. It won't do that with 1.1 and later, but changing the value probably won't do anything for you. "If the tool can manage it ... then a tool could point to specific versions of the DTD/Schema, though that's not quite related to the version of the DITA-OT. With DITA 1.2 it will be easier for tools to manage pointing to a specific version of the DTD ... the Schemas may already be set up for that though. Right now you can point to version specific copies of the DTD, but internal modules do not use version specific identifiers. The Schemas may already be version-specific everywhere." I hope this background helps with understanding what value this attribute might have to your current processes. Regards, -- Don Day Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Chair, IBM DITA Architects Board Email: dond at us.ibm.com 11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758 Phone: +1 512-244-2868 (home office) "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" --T.S. Eliot xmleditor-support-bounces at xmlmind.com wrote on 02/18/2008 04:02:55 AM: > Green, Christopher A (GE Indust, GE Fanuc) wrote: > > > > I was wondering if there was a simple way to force the editor to use > > only a specific version of the DITA OT instead of having to go to the > > most recent version each time there is an update in XML Mind? > > I'm sorry but the answer is no. > > > > > I?ve > > tried using the ?ditaarch:DITAArchVersion? attribute, but it doesn?t do > > anything, and actually generates a large series of errors when running a > > build once I open a file that was created using the DITA DTD 1.0 instead > > of 1.1. Errors include ?unrecognized value?, ?unknown tag?, etc etc. > > > > I'm not sure that the ?ditaarch:DITAArchVersion? attribute is intended > to be changed by a user. > > If you do not attempt to change the ?ditaarch:DITAArchVersion? > attribute, processing a DITA 1.0 document with the latest DITA OT should > not report any error (DITA 1.1 is a superset of DITA 1.0). > > If this is the case, then you have found a bug, either in our DITA > configuration or in the DITA OT itself. Please send us a sample document > of yours which causes such problem, so we can reproduce it and may be > fix it. > > > > -- > XMLmind XML Editor Support List > xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com > http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
