Andrew S. wrote:
We have successfully associated a DITA map with a Profile for
Conditional Processing. We can tag the various sections of the documents
by manually entering them as free text into the Attribute Table or by
opening the dialogue box using the menu BookMap/Topic -> Conditional
Profiling -> Set Profiling Attributes to open the "Set Profiling Attributes"
dialog box
That's right. See XMLmind XML Editor - Easy Profiling
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/profiling/index.html
Intuitively we feel that "ought" to be able to configure these as
dropdown menus in the Attribute Table in the bottom-right window.
Sure.
Is
there something simple we've missed to enable this?
No, you didn't.
Once a .profiles file associated to a document, this should be
automatic. The problem is that we, XMLmind developers, have been too
lazy to implement this feature in the Attributes tool. Shame on us.
It's of course feasible to implement that yourself by customizing the
DITA map and topic configurations as explained in:
5. Customizing an existing configuration
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/customizing.html
Suffice to add one or more <attributeEditor> configuration elements (one
per conditional processing attribute you use in your .profiles.
Example:
---
<attributeEditor attribute="audience" elementMatches="*">
<list allowMultipleValues="true">
<item description="A user of the product">user</item>
<item description="A product purchaser">purchaser</item>
<item description="A product administrator">administrator</item>
<item description="A programmer">programmer</item>
<item description="An executive">executive</item>
<item description="Someone who provides services
related to the product">services</item>
</list>
</attributeEditor>
---
See
http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/configure/attributeEditor.html
But this is a lot of work for a feature which should be automatically
supported by XMLmind XML Editor.
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