Archive - Dec 2007

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Problem with conditional exclusion

I am trying to use a .ditaval file to display conditional text:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<val>
<prop att="audience" val="user" action="exclude"/>
</val>

In my topic, I have an element defined thusly:

<p audience="user">Only display this text for admin users</p>

When I do my build in debug mode, it seems to resolve ant.input.valfile correctly:

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Bob Doyle

DITA: One Size Fits All for Technical Publishing?

Back in June 2006 I wrote an XML Editors review article for EContent Magazine that covered a dozen desktop and web-based authoring tools for XML. That article was a bit too hard on both the writer and editorial staff, so we’re not likely to do it again soon. (I may publish a revised study on the web instead).

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