Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Have Published My LwDITA Code Samples this M

Apologies for coming into this discussion late.

Mark: I actually timed the release of this so that you could use it or at mention it in your presentation later this week. ð Let's just say I had my work cut out for me yesterday in finishing things off.

The HDITA code and the key functionality of the MDITA material is largely untested. To do some preliminary testing on the XDITA material I switched the doctype declaration to full DITA and commented out the parts I knew wouldn't work. I was able to get the MDITA material to parse through Jarno's plugin, but couldn't get the keys to work properly (or at least, not 100%). Went over the spec and the code several times, and I don't believe the code is at fault.

And as Carlos has said for the HDITA part, without a fully working output solution, I just have to cross my fingers and hope for the best until I can properly test the code.

We are still in the days of the Wild West when it comes to LwDITA!

Cheers!

Keith Schengili-Roberts

Market Researcher and DITA Evangelist

IXIASOFT

825 Querbes, Suite 200, MontrÃal, QuÃbec, Canada, H2V 3X1

tel + 1 514 279-4942 / toll free + 1 877 279-4942

robertsk@ixiasoft.com / www.ixiasoft.com

And don't expect perfection... support is very limited and preliminary.

Carlos Evia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112

(540)200-8201

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 6:05 PM Mark Giffin <mark@markgiffin.com> wrote:

Oh, so I should be using a 3.1.x OT. I'll get on it right away! Thanks

On 8/13/2018 3:01 PM, Carlos Evia wrote:

Jarnoâs good plugin is now integrated in the official OT release but it needs our XDITA files (from the subcommittee repo).

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:59 PM Mark Giffin <mark@markgiffin.com> wrote:

Yes, I'm doing that with an XML <map>. No one seems to support an MDITA or HDITA map at this point. I'll figure it out.

Have you used this late-model MDITA/HDITA parser by Jarno that's listed on the "LwDITA-aware tools" page?
https://github.com/jelovirt/org.lwdita

I installed it and can get it to run, but I realized I'm not sure what it is trying to do. Is it meant to be called by the HTML5 plugin, for example? Or does it do something by itself?

On 8/13/2018 2:49 PM, Carlos Evia wrote:

I think the preliminary LwDITA support in the OT needs a DITA (or XDITA) map to reference HDITA or MDITA topics.

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 5:02 PM Mark Giffin <mark@markgiffin.com> wrote:

Keith, I have a question. Did you publish any of these to HTML, PDF, etc? I've been trying to get Oxygen to publish my own lwdita samples, MDITA and HDITA, and I have not succeeded yet.

Plain markdown works in Oxygen if I set up the <map> right, but publishing fails with MDITA and HDITA.

On 8/13/2018 1:56 PM, Mark Giffin wrote:

This is fantastic Keith, and perfect timing for the presentation I'm doing on lwdita. I'm stealing it.

Mark

On 8/13/2018 6:17 AM, Carlos Evia wrote:

Awesome! I will take a look. Looks like you really spent some time here. Great.

On Mon, Aug 13, 2018 at 8:54 AM Keith Schengili-Roberts <keith.roberts@ixiasoft.com> wrote:

Just wanted to pass along that earlier this morning I published a short piece on DITAWriter.com (http://www.ditawriter.com/ditawriters-lightweight-dita-code-samples/) where I talk about the set of LwDITA code samples posted to GitHub.

Just mentioning it here as I am hoping that the people on this list can help get the word out about it.

Cheers!

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Keith Schengili-Roberts

Market Researcher and DITA Evangelist

IXIASOFT

825 Querbes, Suite 200, MontrÃal, QuÃbec, Canada, H2V 3X1

tel + 1 514 279-4942 / toll free + 1 877 279-4942

robertsk@ixiasoft.com / www.ixiasoft.com

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Carlos Evia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112

(540)200-8201

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Carlos Evia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112

(540)200-8201

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Carlos Evia, Ph.D.

Associate Professor of Communication

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112

(540)200-8201

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