Thanks for the responses. Neither of these solutions are really options for me right now, given timeline and current configurations. So I will just have to

By custom middle layer, you mean the XML blobs in RDBMS, right? In our current setup, authors write in Word, then my team converts that content to DITA as part

For many of our Publishing clients we (RSI Content Solutions) use DITA-based XML as the XML representation of content that is authored in Word (mostly) and

This table looks fine to me. I ran it through the OT as a reference topic and had no issues with it. What topic type(s) are you using? You mentioned you pulled

To troubleshoot this problem, make sure your build doesn't clean up the temporary files and inspect the .fo file (as I recall, it's now something like

Leigh I am not certain about your set of xslt setup, if its 2.0 based, more sophisticated regular expressions are supported. However, I am not sure how

Alex How well are you dealing with the problem? Or Solved maybe?are you able to locate that string in question? Cheers ... ·¢¼þÈË£º"team wise"

Hi. Sorry for another hypothetical question, but I think it is very worthwhile to gather community opinions first. What do you think are the main benefits of

Hi Yves, We recently deployed a DITA implementation for an aerospace/defense company for aircraft maintenance manuals and workcards. The style sheets we

Thanks, Shane, Julio, and Leigh! Your comments help a great deal. Shane, you said that the integrator modifies the toolkit's files to add or remove plugin

Hi, Leigh, This doesn't solve your problem, but hopefully it explains why you're having a problem. Xpath's regular expression implementation does not have

I'm trying to add a rule to the QA plugin to flag possible passive constructions. I've created a regular expression that works as well as possible:

(This is a really long response--but not as long as it could be :-) Settle in, get a coffee....) I'm going to take a stab at the integrator question. The

Sorry Earl, been a bit busy. The customization.dir property is either set as a property in your plugin or, in your case, as a argument when you build the file.

Silvio I am glad to hear that. Ray ? 2013-4-11 ??6:19?"silster71" ??? ... Silvio I am glad to hear that. Ray ?

Thanks a lot, Ray! This solved my problem. Apparently it needed to find the dost.jar file in the lib directory. Many thanks again! Best regards, Silvio

Hi group I'm doing some research about maintenance documentation. Is there anyone who's using DITA to write maintenance manuals? I'm interested in samples,

A very high level answer about the integrator process: It adds your plugin's extension points to the appropriate XSL templates in the open toolkit, or removes

The relative positioning of elements when you author content in DITA does not necessarily indicate the positioning of elements when the deliverable is

Thanks, Leigh and Julio! Yes, I am using an "older" version of the DITA-OT: 1.5.2. I guess one of the reasons that I'd like to understand and clean up our