One option is to create a DITA topic that includes the product meta information that you want to extract from the DITA map, like a version number, and include this topic on the first position, only in the WebHelp transformation. But the big drawback is that this topic would need to be updated for ev...

Oxygen 16.1 comes with a Java 1.7 virtual machine, while Oxygen 17.0 comes with a Java 1.8 one, which is not as able as the JVM 1.7 to extract correctly the clipboard content placed by the Excel application. So it is strange only in the sense that JVM 1.8 from Oracle has this unexpected regression (...

This didn't actually work, Sorin. Changed the DITA document type Priority to High, saved, then restarted oXygen and tried Smart Paste. No luck. I figured it out eventually: Microsoft Excel places badly formatted content in the Windows system clipboard, which can't be parsed as a well-formatted tabl...

The Priority for both extensions is Normal, whereas the Priority for the DITA document type is Low. Don't know if that's a problem. This is probably the cause of the problem. The document types that were added probably have no Smart Paste handler. In order to check this, please switch the DITA docu...

Our use case is actually to copy two columns of Excel data into an unordered list in DITA. In fact it would be only "half-smart," as for each row we want the two columns to collapse into a single list item. Is this possible? For example, could we use refactoring to accomplish this? Do you...

Hi, Using Oxygen Author 17.0. Ah! Out of curiosity I just tried the smart paste in 16.1 and it worked as expected. What is the name and version number of the application on the Mac OS X machine where you performed the Copy action? Was it Microsoft Office for Mac? In what Java version was the Oxygen ...

Hi Frank, I have a quick fix for you: please add the following XSLT template <xsl:template match="*[contains(@class,' topic/data-about ')]"/> at the end of the following XSLT stylesheet (before the </xsl:stylesheet> closing tag, of course): OXYGEN_INSTALL_DIR\frameworks\dita\DITA-OT\plugin...

The Edit Parameter dialog for the webhelp.footer.file parameter says editor variables can be used in the footer file, but it's not clear to me how to include them so they resolve. In the parameters dialog box if you click on the link associated with the text that says that editor variables are allo...

Hi Frank,

The extra text comes from a bug in the DITA-OT toolkit which you can also experience in the DITA Map XHTML transformation. I will come up shortly with a workaround, or better with a fix for this DITA-OT issue, and I will update this topic as soon as I have the solution.

Hi Tristan,

You are right, the meta tag with X-UA-Compatible should come before any JavaScript or CSS code. We will correct that in the next maintenance build of of Oxygen 17.0.

Thank you for letting us know.

Hi Frank,

Thank you for letting us know.

Hello, Did you modify the default values for the temporary directory and output directory in the WebHelp transformation? You can see these values on the Output tab of the dialog box for editing a DITA transformation. I think including any temporary files (that is files located in the temp directory ...

Hi, If the same DocBook XSL stylesheets come with the SUSE server installation as in the Oxygen installation then you should get the same output as in the DocBook transformation in the Oxygen application. Maybe there is a different parameter set in your DOcBook transformation that is not present in ...

For now, I have commented out the doctype declaration in the svg files, but for the same reasons as Annetteb, I'd like to find a clean fix instead. Adding the two sysproperty elements at the end of the ANT task that runs the XEP processor should be enough, since the resolver.jar is already in the c...

Also, could you clarify how it could be that the change you're suggesting would affect Google search results, since Google search crawlers can't & don't read javascript? Google clarified it on their website . Please see the note about overriding the default page value. It's hard to imagine how ...

Is there a way for us to fix this behavior , where an incorrect link including a hashtag causes the site to load inside itself? I can't find that behavior of the site loading inside itself. How can I see that in the browser on your site ? What links do I have to click? What browser name and version...

Yes, the latest version of the WebHelp plugin places the search box in the top right corner of the WebHelp page.

The hash characters (the #'s) should not be removed from the address of the WebHelp pages and from the links to other WebHelp pages. Google will index properly the pages that have a # in the address if you override in your custom Google Analytics code the default page value by adding a call like thi...

I'm looking customize the top-pane header where it gets the title of the ditamap. I wanted to do more customization there, but I'll take a look at the transforms. Did you try the WebHelp Skin Builder tool ? It allows the customization of the WebHelp page styles by creating a skin CSS file which you...

The docs mention a folder, but it's not clear how to specify the file. Would this be correct? -Dargs.hdr.file=%DITA_MAP_BASE_DIR%\header.txt It wasn't clear if the header file needed to be a XHTML file, which I can try as well. args.hdr is a DITA-OT parameter . The value of this parameter should be...

Did you manage to trace the location of the transformation error? Does the XSLT transformation also break in the Oxygen application with the Saxon processor? Or does the transformation break with a custom processor (xsltproc) but works correctly with one of the XSLT processors that come in the Oxyge...

- Can I trigger a transformation (via a make file in this case) in the VM from oXygen? Yes, by having the XML source file from the Linux VM opened in Oxygen on the local machine, and saving it in Oxygen, which should be the same as a touch command on the Linux VM. That will change the timestamp of ...

Hi, It is a DITA-OT issue. You have to declare your file types ( .docx , .xlsx , etc) as binary resource file types in DITA-OT by extending the dita.resource.extensions DITA-OT point, by adding a custom plugin . The .pdf file type is already is declared as a binary file type in DITA-OT, this is why ...

Any label that is added to an XML localization file and has the js="true" attribute, for example: <str name="label.key">Label Text Here</str> will be added to the strings.js file. The js="true" attribute is added by default if the label does not have a js attribute, so ...

What is the location of the strings-es-es.xml file in the DITA-OT directory in the CMS? The correct location for the XML localization files is DITA-OT-DIR\plugins\com.oxygenxml.webhelp\oxygen-webhelp\resources\localization. This is the location for the strings-es-es.xml Does the DITA map set the la...

We still can't reproduce it. Do you or your customers get this problem please send us some sample DITA XML files for reproducing it.

Hi Frank, Thank you for posting this link. We endorse the Saxon XSLT processor and the Apache FOP processor, which come in the Oxygen install kit. After extensive tests with these processors for a long time in the Oxygen family of applications we have never encountered portability issues caused by t...

What CMS application do you use? Do you have a WebHelp plugin installed in your CMS? Did you install it or it came already installed by the CMS installation kit? What is the location of the strings-es-es.xml file in the DITA-OT directory in the CMS? The correct location for the XML localization file...

Hi Frank, Please test again and let us know if the same customized DocBook PDF transformation applied to the same DocBook XML source document generates the expected correct PDF output in the Oxygen application, using the Apply Transformation Scenario action available in the toolbar of the editor pan...

In theory yes, they should be identical, but I did not test with xsltproc and an IcedTea OpenJDK. If you run the same customized DocBook PDF transformation with the embedded JRE that comes in the Oxygen kit (which is an official Oracle JRE), do you get the correct PDF output? If you don't get a corr...