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I searched the knowledge base and the only resolution I found applies to Unix. How do I fix this error on Windows XP?

I'm trying to get gentext in Editor to pop up Item Numbers that are xref'd in different documents.PTC's FOSI manual says external xrefs are only supported in ACL, but I can't find any data about that in the ACL manuals.Can someone help me get started here? I do have the filename (minus the ".xml") as an attribute in the xref if that helps.<xref itemid="ExMRS00004-87" posttext=")" pretext="(" wpid="S00004-9-2355-319"/"> It would also be extremely helpful if I could throw a warning that the work package referenced (wpid) does not exist. With wpid's that complicated, I'm seeing lots of typos that don't get found until the work package is inserted into the full manual and the xrefs can be updated with real data...which is really a bit late as writers aren't allowed to do that themselves.Thanks again!John T. JarrettBAE Systems | Arbortext version 5.4 | LOGSA XSL-FO v 1.5

I'm trying to change the default behavior of a couple of toolbar buttons and the matching menu items. One of them change markup.I'm able to get the menu item to call the alias I want by using the menu_change command. The problem is getting the toolbar button to call my alias. I tried usingmap Toolbar_ChangeMarkup ChangeMarkupWithProtectionbut it doesn't work. I ended up copying the xui editwindow.xml file to my custom directory and changing the cmd attribute to point to my alias, but doing so has caused the icon on the menu items (menu bar and pop up) to not be displayed. Both the toolbar button and the menu items all point to the same alias. Any ideas why the map command isn't working for the toolbar button, or if there is a better way to do this?Thanks,-- Brian Jensenbjensen@bluelid.com

Anyone have experience attempting to share the same Styler .stylestylesheet with documents using different doctypes. The root documentelement is the same across all XML instances; however, the actual schemareferenced in xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation is different (subset of sameumbrella spec). Despite explicitly declaring the doctype = root documentelement, Arbortext insists that the doctype = XSD file inxsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation attribute. To wit: using stylesheet association in both documents: type="text/x-styler" media="editor" alternate="yes"?> and doctype declaration in both documents, ]> and one document's root element, <doctype<br/>xsi:noNamespaceSchemaLocation="xmlns:xsi="xmlns:rdf="

I was reading that FOSI is supposed to be able to catch "I was wondering if the FOSI engine will catch Arbortext PIs for screen rendering.Something like this to make it obvious in the editor window that a page break has been inserted:<e-i-c gi="_newpage" gitype="PI"><charlist><usetext source="\" ---------=" page=" break=" --------\"=" placemnt="after"></usetext></charlist></e-i-c>I assume pagination in general is print-only? Thanks,John T. JarrettSr. Tech Writer, BAE Systems Arbortext version 5.4 LOGSA XSL-FO v 1.5

Is there a wiki sponsored by PTC or PTC/USER?If neither chime in to identify or start one, would people beinterested -- I could host a site.Basically, I'm often dancing on the fringe of certain technologicalborders and keep thinking that sharing the information, to the extentI am permitted, in a collaborative medium such as a wiki wouldbe desirable.If you are not familiar with wiki technology, please see:

Greetings Adepters,We have an ACL which is exhibiting some strange behavior (to us, anyway).Here's a code snippet:# Make sure the original element can be removed, i.e., it's not a required elementoid_select(obj, 0, 1, 1);if(cut_valid()==0){ undo; response("This element cannot have its context swapped because it is a required element. You may be able to insert the context counterpart for this element."); return;}# Remove the existing elementoid_delete(obj);response("deleted");# See if the "new" element can be inserted hereif(in_context(newElem)==0){ response("The element " . newElem . " can not be created here because it will invalidate the document."); undo; return;}insert_string -sgml "$xformresult";****END SNIPPET****This code works fine as is, but if you comment out the 'response("deleted");' it fails by somehow determining that the new element cannot be inserted here, even though it is valid, per the DTD.We tried a "wait" command in place of the response, but that doesn't seem to h

Has anyone seen this error and can you point me in the right direction to resolve it. I can't find anything in the help files that deal with this. If I open the document up in SGML Source, there is no entity file that is preventing up from deleing a row in a table. We can add rows above or below this particular row in the table and delete it just fine, it is just this particular row that we get this error message on. We are using Epic Editor 5.3 M120[cid:image001.png@01CA9A6D.515D1D10]Linda ShashaniTools and Technology TeamAWS TSS Technical Publicationslinda.d.shashani@boeing.comMC 8A-42(253) 657-6971NOTICE: This communication may contain privileged or other confidential information. If you are not the intended recipient (or responsible for delivery of the message to such person), or believe that you have received this communication in error, please do not print, copy, retransmit, disseminate, or otherwise use the information. Also, please indicate to the sender that you have received

I was just checking my 5.4 installation tree (now under PTC instead of Arbortext) and I noticed that the docs directory is no longer there and there is only one MS help file? Looks like maybe the install options have changed or maybe these are no longer shipped? Mainly I ws trying to find the release notes and can't find anything at the top or in a top level directory. I'm now on the support site for the release notes, but I'm surprised this isn't part of the install tree...dan

I work with a pubs org that uses a variety of tools to author with. I've got several folks that insist on using Word, who will then cuss and complain when it breaks and they can't do something or it blows up on them. I'm wondering if anyone has used OpenOffice for a moderatly complex document and what your experience has been. Did they copy all of Words warts or does it really provide some of the long document functionality like multiple files and cross references? Have you tried bringing the XML from OpenOffice into Editor? Is the XML reasonable to work with? What I'm thinking is that I want to try and salvage this Word document by at the appropriate time taking it into Editor, or at least allow me to make repairs in Editor but allow them to work in Word. ..dan --------------------------------------------------------------------------- Danny Vint Specializing in Panoramic Images

Hello,I was searching for some information and thought I saw something about changing the starting tags for a new XML document so that I don't always have to start with <book> tags. Here's my thinking. I've created three small files. Each file has a table of contents. I want to combine the files like the chaptersin a book and display a combined table of contents in addition to the TOC in each file. My first problem is to combine the files but I can't insert book files into a book file and that makes sense. So my thought was to change the start tag to a <chapter> tag.Now I don't remember where I saw those directions. For that matter, I'm not sure whether I saw it in the help files or somewhere on the Internet. Is that possible or did I dream it?Ginger

I am working on a macro to apply a "Proof" mark to an Iso file before being made into a PDF. I have the coding done up to the point of changing the text to a 25% grey fill. Perhaps I've been looking at this too long, but I can't find anything to change the font color by macro. When you record a macro, the selection for changing fill is greyed out. I then tried converting to paths and looping through elements, but still could not get the color to change. Any suggestions?

Is there any tool for drawing text boxes that have outlines? Thanks in advance

I am looking for an ACL function that will do what the VB function instr() does, which searches one string to see if it contains another string; e.g., to see if "to" is in "Benton" (it is!).Anyone?

I've now dug through 17 PTC PDF manuals.Where in the world is an honest to goodness error log?It is bad enough the composer log window when it does give the line of the stylesheet where it hit an error, it doesn't tell you which XML file it was parsing at the time. I've got those cleaned up now BUT!I still have a multitude of errors that are just too vague to be useful (like "received fo:block when expected fo:root" with no code context at all).I've dug through the transaction archives file by file. I still don't know what to do with a .dat file even with all the PDF manuals.Shoot, I can't even get our Windows 2003 Server to show the Java Console!Finally get through IT and get some access to the server, but I still can't find a decent error log.Thanks again, guys...John T. JarrettSr. Tech Writer, BAE SystemsArbortext version 5.4LOGSA XSL-FO v 1.5

configuration has been modified to improve the performance of today's rich client applications," the Sun release notes state. "Initial and maximum heap sizes are larger and settings related to generational garbage collection are better tuned. "With Java SE 6 Update 18, Sun has also makes it possible to read larger .ZIP files of up to 4 gigabytes in size. Previous Java releases were limited to being able to read .ZIP files of only 2GB or less.We had previously run into memory limits during E3 conversions;there were no work-arounds other than keeping thedocuments smaller. We haven't tried using this new JVM, butit looks promising and others on this list that have beenlaboring under the memeory limitation may find this possibilitywelcomed news.-- Oracle Email Signature LogoJohn Laurence Poole | Principal Software Engineer | 650.607.0853Oracle User Assistance EngineeringM/S 2op1070500 Oracle ParkwayRedwood Shores CA 94065-1677Oracle Instant Chat: john.pooleThe statements and opinions expr

I found a great thread here on scripting making a flat file which I plan to use to back up the doc as it grows to 3000 chapters - yesterday two of those chapters emptied themselves at 10:05 am - declarations at the top and dozens of pages just gone.My Question:I've created a simple instance.acl but can't get it to load and need help on where to put it:message "production/instance.acl found and read";if (! menu_exists ("BAE")) { menu_add -menu .Help "BAE"; menu_add .BAE. "Flatten This Doc" -cmd {flatten_this_doc();}; menu_add .BAE. " -separator; menu_add .BAE. "Rewrite Entity Declarations" -cmd {set writeentdecls=roottreerefchildnone; save_all_docs;};}It is in \custom\doctypes\production\instance.acl. I also tried \custom\doctypes\production.acl with the same results.Our doctype declaration:I've read your posts and the ACL Guide and understand where to put it, but not what to name the directory I guess. I've tried /xml/ and no luck. The PE itself uses /custom/doctypes/Production so I t

I'm off the standard JVM when running Editor 5.3. We use either:# Java VM Version 11.2-b01 -- Sun Microsystems Inc. set javavmpath= 'C:\Program Files\Java\jdk1.6.0_12\jre\bin\client\jvm.dll';# Java VM Version 14.1-b02 -- Sun Microsystems Inc. set javavmpath= 'C:\Program Files\Java\jre6\bin\client\jvm.dll';My results are the same for either version of the JVM.If anyone is interested in this esoteric problem, then I invite them to test on their platform (with the stock JVM shipped with their version) and report their results.I've been trying to take advantage of the Java method "File.createTempFile(...)" where the temporary file thus created can be flagged for automatic destruction upon the termination of the JVM by calling the "deleteOnExit()" method.Unfortunately, it appears this may not work in Windows due to two bugs. A work-around has been proposed at:machine, as defined by the Java Language Specification."I'm wondering what needs to be done to make the sample program below work.To

Hello Adepters,It's that time again. The deadline for submitting abstracts for the 2010 PTC/User World Event is this Friday. Even if you've never presented before, you should submit an abstract. Although the deadline is looming - this Friday! - putting together an abstract really isn't that much work. At this point, you just need an idea, not a fully developed presentation. And everybody has an interesting project to brag about or techniques to share.Presenting sounds intimidating, but it's not. It's fun, even. I first presented two years ago at the 2008 Event. It was my first time presenting at any conference of any kind, and it couldn't have been a better experience. By presenting, I learned more and talked more shop with other Arbortext users than I did during my first PTC/User, when I didn't present. Of course, I'm not really pitching this out of altruism. I want more Adepters to present because it makes PTC/User better, for me. PTC product demonstrations are great, but the real va

To all:We have two monitors that extend our desktops. In Arbortext Editor,the attribute dialog box always opens in the middle of the twomonitors. We have to move the dialog box over to edit it each time. Isthere a way to control the placement of the dialog box?Douglas

I've been trying to integrate javadoc for the AOM and DOM classes into my Eclipse (Galileo - Version: 3.5.1.R35x_... Eclipse IDE for Java Developers 1.2.1.20090918-0703) without success.When I select the properties for the referenced jars, aom.jar and w3cdom.jar, and try to point to the paths, e.g. C:\Program Files\Arbortext\Editor\docs\javadoc\aom, Eclipse complains: [warning icon] Location might be invalid. Files 'package-list' and 'index.html' that are typically available at the root of documentation created by the Javadoc tool have not been found.Though there is an index.html under C:\Program Files\Arbortext\Editor\docs\javadoc\aom, there is not a "package-list".I have also tried the URL:

Anyone have experience with creating indexes with the Army/LOGSA stylesheets?I've inserted a number of index refs that the DTD allows, but those are not the index tags Arbortext looks for...and I'm looking for a pointer on where to go from here.I'm assuming I'll have to write a parser and run it on a flattened book then add the PDF'd index pages later...but I'd sure prefer not to.Thanks in advance for pointing me to the starting line...

I am in the process of creating a new XSD Schema. I'm using the xsd:import option to import tags from other schemas we are currently using.Namespace prefixes are: ipc, mm, wmEverything is working great until i tried to insert a <mm:table> tag that is referenced in one of the imported schemas. It gives me the correct wrapper tag but when it hits the required <mm:tgroup> tag it gives me an internal error saying that that <ipc:tgroup> tag is out of context. It is reading the <ipc:tgroup> tag instead of the <mm:tgroup> tag. I have tried this using a different XML editor and it inserts the tags as expected.Any help to this matter would be greatly appreciated.sarah

Is anyone experiencing a display problem when using the lasso tool when selecting parts of drawings? We seem to have a weird display issue and it can be annoying.

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