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Hi,I have a problem concerning the xpath functions within Arbortext Editor. I use a valid xpath to get the OID with the acl function xpath_nodeset(..) but I recieve a wrong oid when I use processing instructions (touch ups).This example should explain the problem:<?Pub _font FontColor="#c61515"?> <ROW> <CELL COL="1" TYPE="HEADER">Datum der Annahme des Beschlusses</CELL > <CELL COL="2"><DATE ISO="20100506">6.5.2010</DATE></CELL> </ROW><?Pub /_font?>With the function xpath_valid("(/ROW/CELL[2]") I receive true (1) but when trying to get the OID of this cell I have to use _font in my XPATH expression. But this should not act like this. The processing instruction is handled by Arbortext like a XML tag. xpath_nodeset($arr, "/ROW/CELL[2]") should return the OID of the cell and not xpath_nodeset($arr, "/_font/ROW/CELL[2]")!Does anybody had the same problem or should I use a other function? I used the latest Version of Arbortext Edit

Good Morning!Haven't seen anything even close to this one:Most of our DTDs have a significant portion of their content in entities (in some cases, all but the root element). This promotes, of course, the use of the same structure for a given purpose across all doctypes.Our problem is, when we deliver data, we deliver a copy of the then-current doctype DTD as well. This means someone must gather up copies of all the needed entities, as well as the main doctype file. That has proven to mildly error-prone.We tested using Architect or Editor to flatten the entities ('doc_flatten all'), but without success. The former has no Command Line in the requisite window, and the latter insists on loading a DTD as an ASCII file, in which case 'doc_flatten' has no effect.Thoughts? Ideas?Thanks in Advance,Steve ThompsonTAD TechnicalBoeing-IDS Technical Publications+1(316)977-0515MC K83-08The truth is the truth even if nobody believes it, and a lie is a lie even if everyone believes it.NOTICE: This comm

The customer, who is used to UltraEdit, wants a "Find in Files" menupick in their Arbortext Editor to search for a character string infiles on the file system. Does anybody know of a good way to do this? Todd HicksManager, Editorial Desktop Tools - Content Technology Wolters Kluwer Global Platform Organization(415) 868-2024 (HomeOffice@US Pacific Time)todd.hicks@wolterskluwer.com<blocked::<a style="COLOR:" blue;=" text-decoration:=" underline"=" target="_BLANK" href="mailto:todd.hicks@wolterskluwer.com">">mailto:todd.hicks@wolterskluwer.com>

I need to add the facility to post the latest issue at the footer per page as opposed to per section/chapter within a manual.The issue is taken from a change element's issno attribute value. As there may be several changes per page, I need to get the latest change for each page. If a page has not been changed, it retains issue 1 in the footer.I know this has not been possible with Editor in the past as the issue number could not be resetfollowing the up issued page as there is no way of determining page end; the latest issue just ran on to subsequent pages until the next issue changed it.Does anyone know whether this has now been resolved so that changes per page can easily be supported ?Thanks,Andy

So far, nothing show-stopping, although I do not have my license yet, butmore on that in a moment. Let's face it. All license management is, at best,annoying. At the other end of the extreme, it is torturous. FlexLM issomewhere in between ... probably closer to annoying than tortuous, butfurther from anoying thanThe new flow is this:Install Editor (I haven't quite gotten there on PE yet).Start Editor (no more License Administrator).Get a licensing error dialog that contains your "host ID" (equivalent as faras I can tell for the old Server Code).

The Arbortext User Group meeting for 2011 will be held on the 8th July in London, UK.Arbortext has been driving solutions for complex publishing requirements for over 20 years.2011 saw the release of Arbortext version 6.0 which will be one of the main event topics.This free inaugural event will also give you the opportunity to:•Discover the potential benefits from new and updated Arbortext products.•Learn how to get the most out of your support & maintenance investment.•Find out why DITA is rapidly being adopted as the standard for new structured authoring projects•Get a ‘starter for 10’ if you’re contemplating producing multilingual content•Have your Arbortext questions answered.•Meet with other publishing professionals and Arbortext specialists.For more details on this event, please visit http://simonsoftuk.com/?page_id=104RegardsPeter Li, MD, Simonsoft UK Limited

Hi, Is IsoView required to view Figure jpeg graphics in the S1000D IETPViewer? When I click on them I noticed illustrations then appear asblocks in the right hand pane and I don't get to see the figure, whichis a jpeg file. GregJ

I'm evaluating Arbortext, not currently using it. My company has started using Arbortext in other departments, but not in quite the way I am considering using it and my coworkers are not able to answer this question. Thanks in advance for sharing your experience/knowledge!!I would like to use Arbortext Editor to author XML-based documentation that will be published to PDF using profiles and tags to produce documentation based an particular product configurations (the documentation varies depending on the modules and configuration of the product). This much seems to be the main application for Arbortext. We have current documentation in MS Word and I know this content can be imported and then maintained in Arbortext.My challenge is integrating MS Word documents into the published output. The MS Word documents need to remain in MS Word because they are part of the product itself. These documents get updated from version to version.Hopefully I am explaining this clearly. I think what I ne

Hi,I'm testing Arbortext Editor 5.4 M080 (Windows environment).I'm trying to render the "no-break space' (U+00A0) to "underscore" (U+0332) so there can be seen a difference in the editor between a normal space and a no-break space. This is only for viewing purposes so the underlying character in the file should not be affected.I tried to do this by copying the files:c:\Program Files\PTC\Arbortext Editor\lib\charent.cfc:\Program Files\PTC\Arbortext Editor\lib\charmap.cfto another place and reference them with the environment variables:APTCHENTPATH ......\lib\charent.cfAPTCHENTMAP ......\lib\charmap.cfand to the changes in these copied files.Unfortunately I don't succeed to tackle this.Can somebody explain how to do this or what I'm doing wrong?I would like to do this for 2 environments:- An sgml environment where the no-break space is coded as the named character entity - An xml environment where the no-break space is encoded as an UTF-8 encoded character (not as an entity but the 2 byt

The customer wants a tabbed dialog in Editor. I made a nice XUI dialogwith atabbox with several tabpanels. We need an event to occur when a tab isclicked. We placed a <script with=" ev:event="DOMActivate"> inside atabpanel with an Application.alert but nothing ever happens onclicking the tabpanel- no error, nothing is wrong with the xui or thejavascript, - we have tried setting ev:event to all the availableevents but nothing ever happens on click. -Anybody got any ideas as tohow to fire off some code from a tabpanel? - or has anybody found that aDOMActivate <script> doesn't work inside a tabpanel?... seems likeclicking a tab would be a DOM activation but maybe not...? Todd HicksManager, Editorial Desktop Tools - Content Technology Wolters Kluwer Global Platform Organization(415) 868-2024 (HomeOffice@US Pacific Time)todd.hicks@wolterskluwer.com<blocked::<a style="COLOR:" blue;=" text-decoration:=" underline"=" target="_BLANK" href="mailto:todd.hicks@woltersklu

BeforeHello.Using Arbortext Epic 5.1, I am trying to incorporate REV bars in a file. I figured out that if I enter (1) one in the inschlvl field in a table, the rev bar will show up after publish. When I try to print the track from the viewer, the rev bar goes from one column, to the rest of the row....I don’t know why. Any help would be appreciated.Thanks

I am having a problem with my underline element in that it is not underlining the hyphen if a word gets hyphenated at the end of a line. I know the scorespc="1" in this snippet <highlt scoring="1" scorespc="1" scorestyle="single"/"> makes the spaces and commas in underlined text be underlined as well as the actual text but is there any way to get the hyphen to be underlined as well? Any help would be greatly appreciated.

I have a need for knowing when a user clicks mousedown over the graphic being displayed.   I have used config events to enable mouse events I understand I need a callback function of MouseDown(Button, Shift, x, y). I am not at all sure how to tell isoview where my callback function can be found.   I have not been able to connect all the dots to make it work. Can anyone send me some code examples of how they did it ?   Thankyou.

Hi, Does anyone know what the pixel dimensions are (L x W) for a Logotype inthe header of an S1000D document? I took a look in the spec but itdoesn't seem to mention it anywhere apart from a vague reference to a 32mm or 50 mm width in the header, Chap 6.2.1. Graphics can apparently bea minimum of 300 dpi. GregJ

Hi,I need to query Arbortext Editor (here: 5.4 MR020) for a list of all open files. Has anyone done this before and can tell me how this can be done?I already tried to use getDocuments of the Application object (which always returns 4 documents of whom only one is an opened file or stylesheet, regardless how many documents are currently open) and getNextSibling/getPreviousSibling on the result of the getActiveWindow method of the Application object (which returns no siblings at all).*Thanks in advance and best regards,Mathias Harbeck*: I use a COM2Java-Bridge, so the actual methods, properties etc. of the COM interface might be slightly different.

Would it be possible to do the following ?When I open a iso file the object list contains the following name values for the object for example: Bn0001_prt or Bn0333_asm1. Remove all values starting from the underscore in the name attribute ?2. The Object list may contain 200 objects3. Change the Object Type attribute for all objects to part and then import Object info for the objects in the list from a fileFor examle:Import data from a text file that contains the followingName Quantity RemarksBn0001 2 N/ABn0333 1 N/A Any help would be greatly appreciated.

The Arbortext User Group meeting for 2011 will be held on the 8th July in London, UK.Arbortext has been driving solutions for complex publishing requirements for over 20 years.2011 saw the release of Arbortext version 6.0 which will be one of the main event topics.This free inaugural event will also give you the opportunity to:• Discover the potential benefits from new and updated Arbortext products.• Learn how to get the most out of your support & maintenance investment.• Find out why DITA is rapidly being adopted as the standard for new structured authoring projects• Get a ‘starter for 10’ if you’re contemplating producing multilingual content• Have your Arbortext questions answered.• Meet with other publishing professionals and Arbortext specialists. For more details on this event, please visit http://simonsoftuk.com/?page_id=104 RegardsPeter Li, MD, Simonsoft UK Limited

I know this is a bit of a goofy question, but does anyone know what portnumber is in use when Arbortext reads or writes files from a regular(non-HTTP/WebDAV) file system? Trying some exception testing with Riverbed, and the admin asked mewhich specific port is being used when Arbortext does read/writeoperations. Thanks, -Jason A. Buss

It's become clearer I need Styler for some of the work I'm doing (create new doctypes, support some existing ACL connected to existing doctypes, offline composition for this development, etc.) so I just downloaded / installed it after uninstalling Editor. But, I became aware we have a license available to me for Architect.But, what is Architect? Specifically:What can I do with Architect I can't do with Styler?; and,What

Looking back at some of my older macros I see that in several of them I change things in Isodraw to suit the macro but once the macro is finished, the changed attributes remain, they are not put back to their former state.For example I have one that adds text to a drawing and sets:Text size 7Text align base_line rightDoing this of course leaves the text size at 7 and text align at base_line right regardless of what they were before the macro was run.What should really be done is to make a variable of the existing text size and alignment settings, so that they can be set back as they were at the end of the macro.Trouble is I don't know how to extract these values. I'm sure there should be a way, but I can't find it in Macro help.

We recently upgraded to Arbortext 5.4m80 from 5.3 at our site, and the biggest source of consternation seems to be the handling of EPS graphics in the Editor window. In 5.3, Arbortext just displayed the EPS graphic's preview image, but 5.4 tries to render the PostScript on screen. This would be a good thing, except many of EPS files make use of referenced fonts (like "Symbol"), which aren't available in Arbortext's little PostScript environment, and with the fonts missing the display of these graphics on screen is poor. I'm told the same problem affects output from Arbortext's Preview command.Have others run into this too? PTC says to incorporate the missing fonts into the EPS graphics, but that may not be feasible. I'd settle for an option to go back to the EPS preview image, like in 5.3. Any ideas for working around this problem? (Admittedly this is only an issue for screen display in the Editor; generated PDF output is fine.)

My first foray into ACL today.What are some good ways to log diagnostic messages from ACL (i.e., something like a "logger" facility, etc.) - either appending list entries into an open diagnostic window (preferred), or to a log file?"response" and "message" just don't seem to cut it.

Hi,We have a business requirement to export documents from Arbortext 5.4 M020 directly into MS Word format. What is the best we can do for this?From what I've read, export to MS Word from Arbortext is only supported via RTF, taking care to use special "Word fields", "styles", "instructions" and/or stylesheets. And, even then, the Arbortext Styler Guide& Help files suggest there are plenty of limitations and "gotchas" lurking along this path.One of our "power" users suggests she has used elsewhere a feature / add-on to EPIC / Editor that can be used to directly export to, or compose into, a Microsoft Word (i.e., ".doc") format. Does this sound familiar to anyone? What is she talking about? She can't remember the feature, but believes it may be a separately-licensed add-on.Any tips or leads will be carefully followed up!Regards,-- Marty

I have made changes to the SMA stylesheet header (i.e. added logo and chapter information). I applied these changes to "ChapterPage Set Even/Odd pages".When I publish my SMA map to PDF, the header information shows up on every page except for the top level (chapter) pages. If I demote the chapter elements down a level the header information displays. How do I get the header information to show up on the top level (chapter) pages?

You can also go to Tools-Preferences and select the "View" category and the check the "Graphics as Icons" checkbox.