hi there,

i'm trying to convince our developers and intermediate management to focus on DITA in our next software generation, a web-based application for government administration. the difficulty is: i'm left alone on that task and have no help whatsoever since documentation is seen as very unimportant (but everybody will be complaining in the end when there's no documentation).

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hi (and apologies for the long text - it just did not work out shorter),

i work @ a company that creates web applications for government administrations (before that we delivered client-software). this software is used by a multitude of different stakeholders and therefore demands several types of documentation. our software is very feature-rich and highly configurable, our web interfaces are complex. so we need a flexible solution for a documentation that can easily be adjusted to fit different configurations.

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I've been trying to generate a CHM file which references images in a sibling folder (strictly speaking, a sibling subfolder).

The output HTML is in the folder myfolder/out; each file includes the following image reference:

<img src="../templates/images/logo.jpg">

 

When I look at the HTML files in a browser, the image appears, but when I open the CHM, it's missing.

Similarly, the CSS I'm using is applied when I view the topics in a browser, but is not applied in the CHM.

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Hi, 

 We’ve just started with a Dita project using XMetal. We’ve been successful with setting up the Dita environment, meaning we’ve been able to run ant all successfully and test the dita installation. But have not been successful with configuring XMetal. Basically not all steps from the client’s style guide went smooth because of the differences between the versions of XMetal.

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