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All,We have a large document that we assemble from several smaller docs managed and versioned independently. The large doc has a cross reference where the ID is in one of the smaller docs and the IDREF is in another. The problem is, our CMS checkin process (which we coded ourselves), runs a completeness check on the doc first, and only proceeds with the checkin if the check succeeds. The smaller docs with the ID and the IDREF obviously fail the completeness check since the doc is missing either the ID or the IDREF. Is there a way to get around this while still running the completeness check?Thanks,-- Brian Jensenbjensen@bluelid.com

Does anyone have the old EMS-2 40051 DTDs from Arbortext 4.3 converted and recompiled for 5.4?Since 4.3 won't run simultaneously with 5.4, it makes it hard to cut and paste from one to the other. Not to mention the mapped key shortcuts are different between versions and I keep deleting tags instead of modifying them.I know maintenae.dtd compiles wrong...not sure about the others. Shoot, they won't even recompile correctly for 4.3.1!Thanks,John T. Jarrett CDTSenior Tech Writer, Integrated Logistics Support, Land & Armaments/Global Tactical SystemsT 832.673.2147 | M 832.363.7234 | F 832.673.2376 | x1147 | -<">mailto:->BAE Systems, 5000 I-10 West, Sealy, Texas USA 77474www.baesystems.com

I thought CALS table properties were "automatically" recognized. Withinthe editor, I have changed the width of my table to less than a page wide.This displays as expected in the editor. I then test the composed view andthe table fills the column width. It seems I can change the proportion ofthe columns, but I can't get the overal table width to change.I've set/unset the pgwide value to see if this affected anything - nodifference. I've alos used the table properties which inserts a PI - thishad no chnage.Any idea what is going on?..dan

As most of you know, we've been working on updating the Army's 40051 XSL style sheets. I think we've made headway, but there are so #%#$%^ permutations we'll never cover them all. 😞Anyway one of the things we've been sort of ignoring in favor of real formatting is that graphics are not showing up. The appear in the screen display and when I process using a print FOSI, but are totally absent in the FO. One of our ladies says she has it working, but only if she puts the graphics in the same folder as the FO files. Okay for testing, but definitely not what one would want for production. So is there a secret that we're missing here. Lynn

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

If you have  information about your company’s product or services  that needs to be  delivered to customers, whether it’s in print or  electronic form,  chances are you have heard of XML.  Are you finding yourself in the position of having to explain to others or have you wondered:What’s all the big deal about XML?Why should I care?What’s in it for me?How is it going to save me time?How will I lower cost?Then come and listen to our expert panel of industry leaders as they  share with you a bit of their journey and what the true ROI is of XML.  Experts from Hewlett-Packard, Medtronic, Nortel, and Toro. No matter how large or small, how new or how old your company is or  what technology or service your company provides XML can have  significant returns for you in:Reuse content for faster delivery of informationSeparation of form and content (your writers can  write rather than try to tweak with documents to get them to look right)Abi

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

We answer a lot of questions about Arbortext, in a lot of different places.  This is only one of them. Why? Because we're one of the few qualified PTC-Arbortext partners. Because we've been working with the Arbortext solution for more than a decade.Arbortext is not simply an XML Editor or Illustration tool. It’s a big-picture solution that includes all the pieces required for creation, management, and  publishing of enterprise content. In fact, Arbortext is the only out-of-the-box, end-to-end solution. Since the acquisition by PTC in 2005, Arbortext has been focused on making sure the products are  integrated and play nicely with each other. We have all heard horror stories from publication groups who have had to ducktape a solution together in order to get the full solution. Often times, despite years of work, they never really realize the full capabilities of a complete end-to-end solution.We get questions from customers and prospective customers who are at  all p

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

Check the Arbortext PTC/User Group page for a list of upcoming virtual meetings and webinars. Lots of good product information, tips, and feature-focus sessions headed our way.Here's a short list:August 28    User Meeting: Deploying and maintaining a large single-sourcing solution: Now what?This is going to be a great one. I've known the speaker for a while and even did a podcast with him. He's an long-time Arbortext customer who has done a lot of really interesting things over the years. However, one of the best things we can all learn from him is what it takes to deploy an Arbortext-style dynamic publishing system for a major company. At it's peak, his team of seven was managing the system for 700 writing staff. He was there in the beginning when they proposed the system to management and he's there today, 10 years later. It's going to be a great presentation!August 31    Webinar: DITA Style in Arbortext. It's Easy!I'm giving this one. We're going to sho

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.