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Re: any reason why to choose DTD over XSD

Deborah Pickett — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:56:56 GMT

Hi Igor, ... [...] ... For us it was because of legacy. The WYSIWYM editors that our authors use (XMetaL Author 5.5 and FrameMaker 7.x) are DTD-only.

Re: Text characters overlap inside a table cell if cell width is les

a.vanraaphorst9 — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 04:26:30 GMT

We are having the same problem with column widths in PDF. I don't see the "pagewide" attribute you mentioned. Can you give me a pointer to it? Thanks

Re: any reason why to choose DTD over XSD

Eliot Kimber — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:32:20 GMT

... No, 1.2 predates (or will predate) the approval of XSD 1.1, so it cannot depend on anything in it. In any case, DITA 1.2 uses redefine and therefore

Re: any reason why to choose DTD over XSD

Igor Lino — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 03:01:41 GMT

Hi Eliot, Interesting indeed. Do you(or someone) know(s) how the OASIS DITA takes a look at the development below? Does DITA 1.2 relies on the fact that

Re: hhc to ditamap?

babelgone — Wed, 02 Dec 2009 00:02:33 GMT

... The newer version handles recursion better for nested lists. Next step will be to find a reasonable way to determine what the map title should be... still

Silicon Valley DITA SIG - Year-end social

Scott Prentice — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 23:58:26 GMT

The December meeting of the Silicon Valley DITA Interest Group (SVDIG) is scheduled for Wednesday, December 9 at 7:00pm. We'll be meeting at Pedro's Restaurant

Re: Outputting to MS Word

Troy Klukewich — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 22:30:05 GMT

Hi Mark: I'm not sure what processing engine you are using and whether you can use multiple engines in your production line. For a demo, I used the DITA Open

Re: any reason why to choose DTD over XSD

Eliot Kimber — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:51:00 GMT

The main reason to prefer DTD over XSD for DITA is because DITA depends on some features of XSD 1.0 that are not consistently or universally implemented,

any reason why to choose DTD over XSD

Igor Jacy Lino Campista — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:41:31 GMT

Hi, I have seen lots DTD related specializations, and was wondering why people choose to extend or produce DTD instead of XSD schemas which are much more

Re: Conditional processing for specialized attributes failing

Paul Masalsky — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 21:28:28 GMT

Seth, thank you, kind sir. You were right on the money about the specialization being incorrect. The conditional processing was working for - a(props

Re: Outputting to MS Word

Mike — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:24:38 GMT

Hi Mark, a couple of options in the product line: http://www.elkera.com/cms/products/elkera_xml_print/summary_of_features/ In the open source area:

Outputting to MS Word

Mark Peters — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 19:07:43 GMT

Hi Everyone, The technical publications and training teams in our company share the same DITA XML source files. The training team has a need to distribute

Re: Conditional processing for specialized attributes failing

babelgone — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 17:55:46 GMT

Hi Paul. This has "just worked" for me with the same OT release. I've not tried using a prop element without a @val. Perhaps try providing @val with a

Conditional processing for specialized attributes failing

Paul — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 14:59:12 GMT

Using attribute specialization with DITA 1.1 and DITA toolkit 1.4.2.1, I created three new conditional attributes: storage-systype storage-processor

Re: Figuring out how to use copy-to

lofan6 — Tue, 01 Dec 2009 00:35:36 GMT

I upgraded my version of the toolkit to M23, but saw no change in this odd behavior. The file that's generated by the copy-to parameter is still placed one