... Spaces separate name tokens, which are basically strings that are defined not to have spaces. They are often used when you want to be able to specify

Yes .. this could be done in Frame, but how would one do this in a purely XML workflow? This can't be the first time this situation has come up. ...scott

Are people experimenting with ram disks to speed up the production of documents with large numbers of links? You need a machine with a bit of memory but if it

Off-list. Thanks! As to why they are not working -- It's Friday before a long weekend :) Nothing is going to work as it should ... I don't do style work that

Hi Ian, I believe that you are indeed correct about spaces, thought by "metadata" I'm going to assume you mean attribute values. CamelCaseIsYourFriend or

I would think you should be able to add "[ancestor::*[contains(@class, ' task/stepresult ')]] in your first test and get what you want, e.g.:

Thanks, Steven. The following code is working for me:        

I think for your select you want to use: if(*[contains(@class, ' topic/image ')][preceding-sibling::*[contains(@class, ' topic/p ')]][1]) then 'always' else

... Yes. That is exactly how we see Postel's law applied. The authoring tool is creating the content, so it needs to be strict. The processor is accepting

On Fri, 24 May 2013 20:39:32 +0300, George Cristian Bina ... Yes, that's similar to our message. We've always found oXygen to have excellent messages, as well

I recall reading somewhere that XML, and therefore DITA, uses the space character as a delimiter in multiple values for metadata. Does anyone have any views or

George, I agree with how oXygen does it in terms of Authoring experience, however for publishing systems like DITA2Go, it makes sense to account for these edge

Hey Kris, I'd be careful with "always". I just recently dealt with a situation where I was trying to keep an image with a table "always" and if the image

Hi Jeremy, all, I think that an error as oXygen provides is really easy to understand for any user: *** Reference is a DITA Map but the 'format' attribute does

On Fri, 24 May 2013 13:05:39 -0400, Kristen James Eberlein ... Yes, exactly. One optimization is to verify the links at the conref sources, rather than in the

Guys, the number of links is a result of the content model tables in the Language Reference. Best, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Principal consultant, Eberlein

... Thanks, Ben! I think you are right. The spec has a truly remarkable number of links; we added a counter to find out how many, and it is over 300,000.

I'm building styles for a PDF that is filled with screen captures. I successfully built an attribute set to keep together with the

... No time like the present. ;-) We've added that check for the case where a topicref href has extension ".xml", and @format is not set to ditamap, and

... Jeremy, I'm chiming in a bit late, but... WebWorks ePublisher did exhibit a fairly long generation time as well. Digging in, I found the issue related to