[oXygen-user] [OXYGEN-14072] Add custom catalog to OT build

[Oxygen XML Editor Support (Radu Coravu)]

Hi Scott,

As you seem to have a custom DITA OT installation inside your custom 
framework, why don't you also use it as a default engine for publishing 
in the Oxygen Preferences->DITA page?

Other than that, the DITA OT needs to have a plugin containing extra 
catalogs (or as a hack you need to manually make changes to the 
"catalog-dita.xml" inside the DITA OT). There is no possibility to 
enforce an extra set of XML catalogs from the exterior when  starting 
the DITA OT. At some point I wished there was such a way:

https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/1515

Also Jarno Elovirta experimented at some point with a way to install 
plugins in the DITA OT without the need to change any files in the DITA 
OT folder itself, this pull request was abandoned though:

https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/pull/3152

Regards,

Radu

Radu Coravu
Oxygen XML Editor

On 3/27/24 02:08, Scott Prentice wrote:
> I've got a custom framework that includes an OT installation that 
> provides our custom doctype files and custom plugins. Editing topics 
> that use this custom doctype is handled without problems, and using 
> transformation scenarios that are supported by the embedded OT also 
> works fine. But, I'd like to use an OT target that lives in the 
> default Oxygen OT installation. My Oxygen DITA settings still point to 
> the "built-in" OT, so when I set up a transformation scenario for the 
> Oxygen OT target, it starts to work, but fails when it can't find the 
> custom DTD.
>
> When I add a pointer from [OXYGEN]/org.dita.base/catalog-dita.xml that 
> references my custom catalog, the build completes fine. BUT .. I don't 
> want to modify the default Oxygen installation files.
>
> Some thoughts ..
>
> - I don't think there's a param that I can add to the transformation 
> scenario to reference my custom catalog .. is there?
>
> - I've tried adding my catalog in Settings > XML > XML Catalog .. but 
> that didn't seem to have any affect.
>
> Is there any way to add a custom catalog without editing the default 
> Oxygen files?
>
> Currently using Oxygen 25.1.
>
> Thanks!
>
> ...scott
>
>
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