Well, anyway, the intro to dita and its proper use was your dita for the impatient.
I am glad that so far I am on the right track. And glad I could uncover a bug. You are right about the reltable, actually I had some content but eliminated it (should have commented it out). I will gladly try out your dita converter ditac. Maybe it helps me to add bookmarks within the PDF file, which so far in XXE (PDF conversion) I was not able to get, even I followed your hint under http://xmleditor-support.xmlmind.narkive.com/TwHBxr7i/xxe-bookmap-vs-ditamap-pdf-output-question Anyway thanks for your work and your support, even on a Sunday [😊] Mike ________________________________ From: Hussein Shafie <huss...@xmlmind.com> Sent: Sunday, July 31, 2016 10:47 AM To: mike heer Cc: 'xmleditor-support@xmlmind.com' Subject: Re: [XXE] conref in dita map file On 07/30/2016 11:34 PM, mike heer wrote: > > > Thanks for your reply and comments. First of all I read the document > "Dita for the impatient" and it helped me to grasp the essence. And I > read a lot of other stuff in the past month regarding best practice and > how to customize the PDF rendering (xsl). I came across your name in > many of the publications and see how devoted you are to Dita. You must be confusing me with someone else. I'm certainly not a DITA evangelist/guru like for example, Mr Eliot Kimber is. > So I am > really glad directly to talk to you > I made extensive use of reusable content. I successfully created a > troubleshooting manual with around a hundred fault messages, using a > troubleshooting topic for each of it, but all the content is simply > referenced (fault, cause and remedy). > I also use a reference file for re-usable content appearing in meta > data. That brings me to my map file. Yes, I use only topicrefs in my > map, to reference to the individual topics. > But my map file also contains meta information, such as the product name > for example. And this meta information I keep in a meta reference file. > I do not understand what shall be wrong with that, keeping the meta > information in one place and reference to it?. There is nothing in wrong in that. This use of conref certainly makes sense. > > I also made sure I had no typo anywhere in my conref link. Your conref in the DITA map is 100% correct in its XML form: --- <prodname conref="Test_ConrefMeta.dita#conref_meta_reuse/product"/> --- > Altering the > link and or the target id made the dita-ot complain. There is no need to do this as 1) this use of conref makes sense. 2) Your conref in its XML form is 100 correct. > On the other hand > using XXE to convert my Dita map to PDF worked without a problem (still > have not tried all and will figure out more and more) where else dita-ot > had many errors reported before i managed to convert my first PDF file > (using the same map and topics) because I did not strictly adhere to > Dita rules. So it seemed to me XXE is more tolerant when violating the > rules. Not really. It's XMLmind DITA Converter which is more lenient than the DITA OT because by default, hence when embedded in XXE, XMLmind DITA Converter does not validate its input. (XMLmind DITA Converter is our replacement for the DITA OT. See http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/). XMLmind DITA Converter: XMLmind DITA Converter<http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/> www.xmlmind.com What is XMLmind DITA Converter? Production-quality deliverables out of the box. A serious alternative to the DITA Open Toolkit. Out of the box, XMLmind DITA Converter ... Aside this conref issue, your DITA map contains a empty <reltable>, which is incorrect. Notice that XMLmind XML Editor displays a *red* *error* *icon* at the bottom/left of its main window, which signals a severe validity problem. I guess that's why the DITA-OT reports errors. > > I attached a simple sample to this mail, which causes the error messages > when loading the map in XXE editor. The files are: > > Test_FaultMap.ditamap > Test_Fault_001.dita > Test_ConrefMeta.dita > > ErrorMessage.png (screenshot of error message) > > The Test_FaultMap.ditamap contains a topicref element to > Test_Fault_001.dita and in the metadata a conref to the product ID in > the Test_ConrefMeta.dita (creates the error when loading the map into XXE) > The Test_Fault_001.dita itself uses the same conref to the product id, > without an error message > Well, you have uncovered a conref bug in XMLmind XML Editor. XMLmind DITA Converter which uses its own implementation of conref, does *not* have this bug. Your --- <prodname conref="Test_ConrefMeta.dita#conref_meta_reuse/product"/> --- is OK. Keep using it. We'll fix the bug in the next version of XMLmind XML Editor.
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