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Hi Adepters, I'm having an issue that could be solved by using a variable in XPath, which I don't know how to do, or perhaps by some other means. Here is the situation. I have an XML that looks like this: <matching> <match> <left>Statement 1a</left> <right printorder="2">Statement 1b</right> </match> <match> <left>Statement 2a</left> <right printorder="4">Statement 2b</right> </match> <match> <left>Statement 3a</left> <right printorder="1">Statement 3b</right> </match> <match> <left>Statement 3a</left> <right printorder="3">Statement 4b</right> </match> </matching> This is a matching question in which each left element matches with it's sibling right element. However, for presentation, I want to scramble the order of the right answers so that the user has to make a match. To this end, I have a little routine that uses a random numbe

This is another can I do this question. I have a procedure that has abunch of steps. There are what I call conditions that group some of thesesteps together. In some cases where there are multiple conditions there isan OR relationship between them.The steps within these conditions can span several pages and it is notalways obvious when 2 or more conditions are related to each other. So farI have only seen a choice between 2 conditions, but I would think thepossibility exists for having more than two.The printed sample I have uses an arrow that points to the condition text,then a bar down the side of the page until the next condition that is thenpointed to. On each page that this bar appears, the word OR is inserted.The OR floats to different locations, so it sort of looks like this wascreated by hand rather than with a stylesheet. Anyway it sort of lookslike this in print:--> If main wheel tire is blown:| 1. Brake ...| 2. Arrestment briefing ..| NOTE| some note text here| 3. another

Is there an ACL command to determine the end of an element ?Whilst reading an XML file from top to bottom I am setting a flag when I come across a table for example:if( oid_name(this_o) == "table" ){ in_table=1;} How do I turn the flag off when I get to the end of the table element?Is there an oid command for this ? Regards,Andy

Good Afternoon, I have been working with the Arbortext editor for a whileand only use Screen Fosi's because we use SDL's XPP for our outputs. Myquestion is "When you are using a Screen Fosi do you have to haveComposer for to display your output"? Thanks, C. Scott Turner ( (757)896-5505 (work) | * -

I've got two issues with tables regarding spacing.1) I'm trying to get a standard space above and below the content of acell (really the whole row) in a CALS table. It seems like prespace worksjust fine but any value I insert for postspace is ignored. I'm placingthis on the element contained in the cell. There is just the one elementin the table I'm trying to modify. The only thing that seems to work is touse the newline touchup. At least I get space above and below, I haven'ttried controling the actual space beyond this as I didn't really like thesolution. I also tried the touchup pre/post space settings and it didn'twork any better than setting it on the element.2) The space around the same table seems to be fixed. It appears to beabout .25in of space above and below my table. I can add space to thiswith pre/post space, but when those are not set I have a standard .25inarea above and below. I've added and removed text on the page to see if itwasnt' just this page's content. If I set

I'm having a problem with getting an alignment group to work with boxing.I have a typical chapter with markup like this:<chapter><title>CHAPTER TITLE</title><section><title>Head 1 title</title>...</section><section><title>Head 2 title</title>...</section></chapter>This is not goign to be reporduced like a typical chapter title setup.Instead I have to do something like this

Hi Adepters,I am in in the job market, so if you have something I will send you my resume.Ellen

I'm not finding that info for Styler or FOSI.-- Paul Nagai

Available for immediate downloading from PTC's support site is theArbortext 5.3 M200 release. This maintenance release includes bug fixes only. If you want to knowall the details about this release, please check out the release notes<">http://www.ptc.com/view?im_dbkey=116796> . If you have any questionsabout the release schedule, please reference the PTC Product Calendarat: <">http://www.ptc.com/company/tl/index.htm>

Hi everybody,I trying to create array of elements to save the selected elements in the array (becouse after second selection all first elements are gone)somebody know how to create array in isodraw?

I believe that Arbortext's Enhanced Completeness Check for DITA documents is causing me an unfair amount of pain. First, here's all the on-line Help has to say about Enhanced Completeness Check, followed by my problems:"Enhanced completeness checking checks for things that are described in the DITA standard, but cannot be validated against the DTD or XML schema. For example, enhanced completeness checking checks for missing files, incorrect or unusual URL formats, unusual format and type attribute values, the use of deprecated elements or attributes, and so forth."The following experiments are with Arbortext 5.4M060.* If I have a bunch of topics with xref elements whose href attributes point to external Web pages (format = "html" and scope = "external"), I frequently get the following error:External/Peer reference does not existThis often happens if I'm behind a firewall without proxy settings configured to access the Internet. Is Arbortext trying to go out to the Internet to determine

Ever since 5.1 (we're now at 5.3 M060), we've had quite a fewcustomizations to XUI, Java classes, DTDs etc. that we've beenmanaging via "patch" releases sent out to our writers using a zipexecutable that simply overwrites files in the custom dir. Ouryearly writing cycle also lends itself to annual upgrades, and I'mstarting to look into deploying 5.4 for all of our users.That said, I've been reading up on the compact installation option,including the new installer creator, and I think it might be able toreplace our old patch system.Has anyone used these methods to deploy the editor to writers? Ifso, any tips or pros/cons would be helpful.Our customizations are fairly straight-forward, and usually involvenew compiled doctypes for tag additions, a new java class for XUIcustomizations, the occasional medical dictionary and XSLT for contentrender.Keith

Hello adepters, I have document with tag "sdc" - System Difference Code, which content is"A". I need to change content of all instances of tag "sdc" from A to B.I wrote simple code which produces such work.But, I have hundreds or thousands documents with sdc=A. It is not reasonableto make such work manually. I need to run my ACL code for many documentsfrom a list of files or for all documents in directory.Does somebody knows, is it possibly to produce by ACL: - open document (file name from a list of xml files)- run ACL- save and close document- open next document from the list of files, and so on? My code for reference for one document: function sdca2b(){## Replace content of SDC elements from "A" to "B"## find all SDC and put oids into array#$sdc_array = xpath_nodeset (sdc_nodes,"//sdc"); ## Get markups SDC from array #for (i=1; i <= sdc_array.length; i++ ) { goto_oid(sdc_nodes[i]); if (oid_content(sdc_nodes[i]) == "A") {##mark and delete content of tag sdc# mark -noselect -noinv

I am running Arbortext Editor version 5.3 M050 on Windows XP Professional SP 2. The Find/Replace window worked as expected last week. To my knowledge, I have not made any changes to my virus protection or security software within the past week. The settings are the same as ever.Today, in the same 30+ files edited last week, the Find/Change window won't open from Ctrl + F, or from Find > Find/Replace, or from the Find/Replace icon on the shortcut bar. Nothing at all happens. Zero, zip, nada. I checked the file properties, and they are still set with Write permissions.My first thought was that the Find/Change window may be a popup that is being blocked. I turned off my Popup blocker, and no dice.My second thought is that the Find/Change utility may be a macro, which Windows sees as a problem -- but I'm only fishing for the cause, hoping it may spark an idea that will lead to a fix.If you have experienced this same problem and have a solution, please reply. Any suggestions are welcome.

I'm running into a situation where the programmer in me wants to use astructure that would look like this:if ((type='checklist') and (foo='1' or foo='2' or foo='3')) then ...Attribute rules seem to be the place to do this but they don't nest. Ithink I've worked around this in a case or two by introducingpseudo-elements so I can split some of this processing out. Is this myonly option? that seems like a complicated workaround for something thatis so easy to express.My problem is that I have an existing stylesheet that is fairly completebut it only formats the tech manaul. Not sure how they intended to handleall the possible variations that are required. I want to leverage thisstylesheet to make a checklist version that has a few things different inpresentation, primary one being the page size, but there are also somenumbering and linking differences as well. This impacts a fair number ofelements and is getting out of hand.I have been working with 2 levels of logic, but now I found a req

Hello:I'm in search of a copy of the DTDs for MIL-DTL-81927, -28, or -29 from NAVAIR. If anyone could spare a copy of these legacy Navy DTDs I'd really appreciate it.Thanks,John Sillari

Can you do it in 2 stages and set a flag in stage 1 then check it in stage 2? <att logic="or"> <specval attname="foo" attloc="doc" attval="1"> <specval attname="foo" attloc="doc" attval="2"> <specval attname="foo" attloc="doc" attval="3"> <charsubset> <savetext textid="foo.tdv" conrule="\true\"> </charsubset> </att> <att logic="and"> <specval attname="foo" attloc="#FOSI" attval="\true\"> <specval attname="type" attloc="doc" attval="\checklist\"> <charsubset> </charsubset> </att>-Andy \ / Andy Esslinger LM Aero - Tech Order Data _____-/\-_____ (817) 279-0442 1 Lockheed Blvd, Mail Zone 4285 \_\/_/ (817) 777 3047 Fort Worth, TX 76108

I could not stop sneezing from all of the dust. But seriously, this is exactly the kind of info that people need to post, in addition to the successful solutions to their previously-posted problems/questions. Some lurker somewhere may find this useful someday.

Hi all,Thought I'd report an interesting problem support and I diagnosed recently.One of my authors reported an Editor crash while formatting some content(via PE) containing new elements using an updated Styler stylesheet. Editorsubmitted the composition request, but then failed with an "[A12177] Out ofvirtual memory space. A swap file the size of at least 24 MB is recommended.However, the actual amount required will depend on how many documents areopen and how big they are. Other applications running simultaneously willalso require swap space. To increase your swap file size, open the ControlPanel, select Help, and search for "Virtual Memory". Follow the instructionsprovided." Editor quit immediately upon clicking OK in the dialog.After various testing, settings changes, etc., we determined that a newelement and related changes in the stylesheet were calling the Symbol font*and* Publishing Engine was using symbol.ttf (Open or True Type font) whilethe failing client workstation was usi

Hello,I want to add change bars to the deep splitting pages.However, Arbortext does not support deep splitting pages with change bars.I wonder if anybody has any solutions to circumvent this limitation?Thanks a lot!Bill

We recently migrated from 4.3.1 to 5.4. On 4.3.1, the editor did not acknowledge line breaks in the SGML, which is how an SGML editor is supposed to behave. On 5.4, however, line endings in the SGML are recognized and displayed on screen. This makes it very difficult for the authors to search on phrases.Any ideas? Thank you.

We have just migrated from Epic 4.3.1 to Arbortext 5.4. On 4.3.1 a line ending in the SGML was treated as white space and the editor would not break the line, which is the expected and desired behaviour. On 5.4, the line ending causes the line to break in the editor display. This makes it very difficult for the author to search for phrases.Any ideas as to why this is so, and how to fix it? (my current workaround is that I simply changed all line endings to white space, which is not an acceptable solution) Thanks!

I know this is old, too, but could it be a catalog issue? Are you using APTCATPATH environment variable, and if so, do you have %D included as one of the paths?

As most of you who know me know, I haven't been posting much the past year or so. I just haven't been using Epic to the degree that I used to. So now I am in a ketchup, no that is CATCH UP mode. I have been looking at topics as they flash by, just not really reading the posts, so if this question is old news (which I believe it is) pardon me.I upgraded my 5.4 from F000 to M060 the other day and now whenever I try to open an XSL file I get the obnoxious error telling me Epic cannot find the schema. One of my comrades in arms is using 5.4 M050 and she has the same problem.Is this something new (like the improvements in Windows 7?) or am I just not totally with it anymore?One other question while I'm here. Is there still an archive of Adepters posts somewhere on the PTC site?ThanksLynn

It's been a couple of years since I've had to do this trick and it doesn't seem to be available anymore.The trick was that at one time Arbortext/PTC(?) allowed two licenses for Epic, one on a 'fixed' machine and one for 'portable' use. I've upgraded laptops (from a dual core to quad core) and want to transfer the 'portable' license to the new laptop. The only license I see on the PTC site now is the one for my 'fixed' computer. Has this feature been removed during my hiatus or do I have to call PTC to obtain the key. I didn't see anything on their site related to this.Thanks.Lynn