[XXE] document conversion parameters

[Grundtvig Nielsen Niels]

Given the number of times I've asked you questions about this, I'm now fairly 
confident at being able to do what I need to; I've even started using xsl.fo 
cover pages ... and saving different sets of conversion parameters for easy 
re-use.

I was wondering, though, if there's a mechanism for associating a saved set of 
parameters with a .ditamap file permanently/as default. I don't mind 
selecting/loading a specific set before converting a particular map, but it's 
the sort of extra step I'm quite capable of forgetting ;-}


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Re: [XXE] document conversion parameters

[Hussein Shafie]

On 05/25/2016 12:40 PM, Grundtvig Nielsen Niels wrote:

Given the number of times I've asked you questions about this, I'm now
fairly confident at being able to do what I need to; I've even started
using xsl.fo cover pages … and saving different sets of conversion
parameters for easy re-use.

I was wondering, though, if there's a mechanism for associating a saved
set of parameters with a .ditamap file permanently/as default. I don't
mind selecting/loading a specific set before converting a particular
map, but it's the sort of extra step I'm quite capable of forgetting ;-}



No, there is no way to associate a set of parameters with a specific 
.ditamap file.


It's only possible to customize the XSLT stylesheets used to convert all 
DITA maps to output formats such as PDF, WebHelp, DOCX, etc.


Of course, an XSLT stylesheet customization may contain custom parameters.

Such simple XSLT stylesheet customizations can be easily created using 
the "XMLmind XSL Customizer" companion application. See 
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/com.xmlmind.xslcustom.Customizer.html





Open any of your DITA maps and use menu item:

"Options|Customize Configuration|Customize Document Conversion Stylesheets"

to create several XSLT stylesheet customizations, each having a 
different and meaningful name.


See 
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/customizeConfigurationMenu.html


Once these XSLT stylesheet customizations have been created, use 
"Options|Customize Configuration|Customize Document Conversion 
Stylesheets" to switch from one of your XSLT stylesheet customizations 
to another when needed to.


See 
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/help/ConversionStylesheetsEditor_reference.html


Last selected XSLT stylesheet customization is the one which will be 
used by default for all the DITA maps.





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PS: In production, most of our customers use the xxetool command-line 
tool to do this, not the XXE GUI.


The different sets of parameters are simply specified in the different 
.bat/.sh scripts invoking "xxetool convert".


See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/xxetool/index.html



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