On 07/03/2016 01:45 AM, Jeff Hooker wrote:
I will miss the Navigation pane; it was useful for smaller documents. With our
CCMS and the latency between the client and the server, larger ditamaps took
too long to load for the feature to be realistically usable.
This excessive load time is really specific to your working environment.
When a DITA map is loaded, all the referenced topic files have to be
opened to read their titles. The topic files loaded this way are of
course cached for later reuse (Options|Preferences, General|Features,
"Enable the Document Cache Indicator" --
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/generalOptions.html#featuresOptions
-- would show you this).
One way to accelerate opening DITA maps in XXE would be to
asynchronously load the referenced topic files.
Is there some other navigation tool you are planning for use with ditamaps,
No.
or does this signal a de-emphasizing of the DITA schema for your product?
No.
Note that the Navigation pane was also used for large modular DocBook
documents.
DITA 1.3 is already partially supported by XMLmind XML Editor. See
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/changes.html#v6.7.0 . Full DITA 1.3
support is planned for this year.
We simply tend to remove features (or make them optional add-ons like
our integrated spreadsheet engine) which seem to be more or less ignored
by our customers. This is done for the sake of simplicity (less GUI for
the user to see, less concepts for the user to learn, less code to
maintain) and also because we don't want XMLmind XML Editor to become a
bloated application.
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