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There is an interesting an 'undocumented' function in ACL that will tell youjust about everything you want to know about variables that have been set inyour Epic session. From the command line type "eval_array($ENV)" (without the quotes). Thiswill list all the environment variables that are set. To see othervariables, type "show vars". Lynn

In Jan 2014 LOGSA issued an updated DTD to support authoring of Army TMsusing MIL-STD-40051-1B or MIL-STD-40051-2B. I downloaded this DTD the other day and it does not parse. Has anyone elseencountered this? I have parsed the LOGSA DTD with Oxygen 13.2 and 15.0, Turbo XML 2.4.1, XMLSpy 2011 and 2014 (64 bit), and Epic 5.4 and 6.1. I get slightly differenterrors with each, but all in all the DTD does not seem to be valid. Many thanks Lynn

Could any body help me to do define the style sheet for the following requirement.We are creating the PDF user guide using BookMap template by creating topics and grouping in DITA Map.My requirment is I don't want DITA Map title should be published in PDF when I use these DITA Map inside BookMap. Please see the attached supporting document for reference.Thank you in advance,Rajesh

How to extend line in IsoDraw? Is any shortcut Key for extend line?

Good day all,I have a .cgm file which contains illustrations related to manuals. It has lot of nodes in it. My aim is to create an single boundary for the entire illustration up to its extents. some of the lines are not joined correctly in the extents. If i apply generate contour, i am not able to get an proper boundary. Help me out in this situation. Thanks in advance.

Hello,I'm evaluating ArborText 6.1 (Editor with Styler) with a 14-day trial license.Can it export to HTML? I don't see that option anywhere.Thanks!Chris

Hello,when I go from Edit view to Map document display, all elements are shown as expanded. I’d like Arbortext to expand only selected elements. It’s possible to tell Arbortext which elements expand by using Architect and by modifying the *.dcf file, but I don’t have access to Architect. Do you know how to modify the *.dcf file without Architect? Could you please tell me which *.dcf file modify and how to modify it?Thank you

Hi,I need to create an external file from an xml document that extracts the content of certain key elements in a listing that is then processed for another use. I have this working in my FOSI stylesheet after following some instructions in the PTC Help Center and it extracts the data I want to an xxxx.exp file in the same folder. So far, so good. But the .exp file always takes the name of the parent element that the coding is used in, e.g. name.exp.My problem is that I have several xml documents in the same folder and all of them need to create this .exp file. Since the style sheet always gives the file the same name no matter which file it is, they overwrite each other unless the writer is quick to rename his exp file.Is there a way to name the .exp file created specifically either using FOSI or some kind of ACL so that I can add a sequential number to the created file name or make them specific to each document instance in some way?KM

Sorry for the very basic question. I am trying to figure out how to globally remove a markup xml tag/element from our documents. The find and replace feature doesn't seem to be able to do it. It can only find and replace text. And the comand line and edit features will only allow me to delete markup one at a time. I cannot even seem to figure out a way to search for specific tags. Can anyone help me? Thank you!Dina

Hi,This applies to the AAD stylesheets that were installed with Arbortext 5.3, CSDB M060. I found that single warnings and cautions were not being output as bold text (which they should be according to the spec). I changed the xml template to fix this in the S1000D PDF output. the xsl file is foWarningsCautionNotes.xsl, the template name is at the bottom of the file and is: t_display_single_warning_cautionThe line is: <fo:block padding-before="2mm" padding-after="2mm" font-size="12pt">I changed it to:<!--Modification added font weight--> <fo:block padding-before="2mm" padding-after="2mm" font-size="12pt" font-weight="bold">Greg🙂

Arbortext 5.3, CSDB 4.3 M060I have a problem with the ndash entity in tables. I've entered the ndash in between para tags in a table, yet for some reason they randomly de-construct throughout the document in various locations. These are the completeness errors related to the ndash and an unrelated jpeg notation error. (Note - I am aware of the jpeg error I get that all the time, that comes out of the box.)So, the following is an example of the code which generates an error on validation:<para>&nd;ash;</para>I have no idea why the additional semi-colon is appearing in the middle of this entity. If I fix this (delete and replace it) and CSDB Save the document is valid but if I close and re-open the document and re-validate I find the error has re-appeared.Basically, I'd like to use the ndash but I think I'm going to have to remove it since it appears to be unstable.

Arbortext 5.3, CSDB 4.3 M060I ran into a problem, in one table I selected the entire column and set the para containing the "0" to align right. The issue is that it does not align right in the S1000D output even though the colspec is clearly set to align="right:<table colsep="1" frame="all" id="tab-0006"rowsep="1" tocentry="0"><tgroup cols="3"><colspec colwidth="12.50pi"/><colspec align="right" colwidth="6.50pi"/><colspec colwidth="18.80pi"/><tbody><row><entry><para>Something</para></entry><entry><para>0</para></entry>Yet in another table I have a different result, and the column containing the 0 does align right when it is printed to PDF, the difference is that in this table the entry has an attribute align="right set on it:<table colsep="1" frame="all" id="tab-0005"rowsep="1" tocentry="0"><tgroup cols="3"><colspec colname="COLSPEC6"colwidth="12.50pi"/><colspec colwidth="6.50

In the "Arbortext Content Pipeline Guide", an example jar was mentioned few times, but I was not able to find it. Anyone knows where to find it ?? Thank you.

I am adding a large amount of entitity declarations and referencing them from a DTD. The compile fails with "Size of value string block exceeds maximum capacity of 524280 bytes.Document type definition is too complexCompile failed - rc=64"Just what capacity does this error refer to? I have tried various settings in the SGML Declaration, but the 524280 byte limit in the error message never changes. Is this an internal Arbortext limitation?In the past, we have simply upped various capacity values in the SGML Declaration and got the desired result. But I can't see how to make this limit budge.Any insight would be greatly appreciated.Thanks. Debra Lee

Hi,Offhand does anyone know what the actual text "format" the IsoDraw Macros are in? ANSI, DOS, UTF-8? I find that if I edit the .ism files with Textpad they can no longer be read by IsoDraw afterward. I'm forced to edit them in Notepad which is not really ideal.Greg

We are currently creating an .idr file in Isodraw. We then export it to jpg and to cgm. The jpg is so you can see what the end result looks like and the cgm is put in a different folder where the manual is located. We then create a link in editor to the cgm, so it can be used in the manual. It seems that when you publish, every cgm is then converted to eps. Would we be better off using the idr files, instead of creating cgms??thanksBryon

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Hi Adepters:I've recently taken over Arbortext duties for a colleague who retired (Dave Hintz, whom some of you may be familiar with), so I'm still fairly new to some of this.We recently moved some of our users from AE5.4 M171 to AE6.0 M100. One of our 6.0 users has an intermittentproblem when copying and pasting content from one AE window to another. The headers in all ofour documents should look like this:< !DOCTYPE xpsDocument [< !ENTITY % textents PUBLIC "-//Siemens PLM LMD Tools//ENTITIES XPS Project Text//en_US" "text.ent">%textents;< !ENTITY % idsents PUBLIC "-//Siemens PLM LMD Tools//ENTITIES ids//en_US" "ids.xps.ent">%idsents;]>However, sometimes when this user pastes content in, graphic entity declarations for the graphics used are getting added to the header as well:< !ENTITY xps.id.604919 "&xps.library.root.teamcenter-10.1.2-en_US;/graphicLibrary/tc/cpd/scenarios/phase4.png">I cannot duplicate the problem, and it only happens some of the times wh

I misread the help. It says to perform Save As after running doc_flatten. I personally think it is also good to do it before, because of the lack of Edit > Undo for this.

Hi.....we are not able to see generated text for elements with a particular namespace....when we do Format -> Modify Element In Context.. we are not able to see element's FOSI for those elements belonging to particular namespace....however it works fine for other elements.Any idea what could be going wrong.....we have xsd associated with the document...and the same namespace is that of root element as well.Regards,Pawan

Our acl code has a callback for insert_tag that detects the insertionof specific ID elements, and assigns them a unique @ID attribute(using the OID) upon insertion. This has worked great for years, anddue to the nature of how we were using the tags, was sufficient forour needs.Our new tagsets, however, lend themselves to being copy/pasted inorder to use the previous structure as the basis for new items added. Unfortunately, the insert_tag callback does not fire on a paste.So... I was looking into using the paste callback, but it seems thatpasted content does not trigger insert_tag, even if the given tag isin the buffer. Furthermore, I think it might be better to use thecopy callback, since I would want the ID to remain in the case of acut/paste.Does anyone know offhand if there is any easy way to interrogate thecopy/pasted tags, aside from doing some sort of search across theactual text in the buffer?Ultimately, all I'm trying to do is determine if the user is trying tocopy something l

We have been trying to install S1000D Arbortext software and we came across this error. I was wondering if anyone knows what or if they have any issues with this that might help us. We put in a case for the issue but we wanted to check here as well.

Hiya,We have a document we are contemplating migrating from FrameMaker to XML.It contains several hundred mainframe screens that are currently authoredin Adobe Illustrator ... but are essentially just text. I am wondering ifthere is a way to automatically export the text from the Illustrator filesinto simple text files (after which I could convert/import them into ourXML where a warm, happy content model is just waiting to format them allpretty-like).So for example, the process would take a folder full of: abcd1.ai abcd2.ai ...And output: abcd1.txt abcd2.txt ...Also happy to hear about other (semi-)automated paths anyone else mighthave taken for such an endeavor.-- Paul Nagai

Hi,all. I defined a variable in the Arbortext Editor's command line,such as "$i=5",and I want to get the variable's value in an external javascript,what should I do?Thanks

Hi,I am trying to create some generated text in a fosi for several different attribute values for Units of Measurement. In the DTD, there is an attribute value of "%" for percentage units. <xs:enumeration value="%"/">Is this a reserved character in fosi? because when you choose this value in the document and then attempt to format the document, the value isn't recognized as matching anything, it generates an error in Editor:[A27023] The value of this <specval attval="%"> does not conform to the Declared Attribute Value (ENUMERATED) of the attribute in the document instance against which the <specval> testsAny advice?Thanks, KM