On 01/18/2011 03:00 PM, Kevin Flynn wrote: > > I am currently looking into DITA, and XmlMind's DITA support. I can't > quite see how XmlMind supports global search and similar functionality > in highly modularized DITA documents. With DocBook documents you can > open the master document of a book in XmlMind and search all xincluded > sub documents. You don't seem to be able to do anything similar with > ditamaps - when you open a ditamap, all you see are the references, not > the referenced documents' content. > > Or am I missing something? >
No, you missed nothing at all. We do not plan to transclude the content of a DITA map. In our opinion this does not make sense because a DITA map is not just a master document comprising several modules. It's the specification of one or more deliverables, containing much more than references to topics. You seem to miss the multi-file search/replace facility, typically operating on all the files found in a given directory matching a given wildcard (e.g. *.dita), found in many advanced text and XML editors. We plan to implement such facility in XXE v5 (expected at the end of this year). FYI, we plan to release XXE v4.8 next week which will support authoring and processing DITA 1.2 documents. However this version will not contain high-level authoring tools allowing to cope with keys (i.e. easily create @keyref, @conkeyref). Such high-level authoring tools are not expected before version 4.9. -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
