Can't get action='flag' to work for conditional text

Forum topic: Submitted by cdemattio on Wed, 2008-06-25 21:06.

I'm new to DITA and have been trying to use conditional text in the DITA Open Toolkit. I can get the 'include' and 'exclude' actions to work with no issues. When I use the 'flag' action, the conditional text appears or disappears as desired, however, the 'flag' text does not appear. By 'flag' text, I mean the text that is supposed to be prepended to the conditional text.

I've searched and searched on the web and tried all possible variations of the 'prop' element with action='flag' but I just can't get it to work.

Can somebody find an error in my approach and/or send an example that is known to work?

Here are the files I'm using:

.dita:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>

<!DOCTYPE topic PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Topic//EN"
"../../dtd/topic.dtd">
<topic id="maintaining" xml:lang="en-us">
<title>Maintaining</title>
<shortdesc>You maintain your solution to ensure that all components
are operating at maximum efficiency.</shortdesc>
<body>
<p audience="administrator">Set the configuration options:
<ul>
<li product="extendedprod">Set foo to bar</li>
<li product="basicprod extendedprod">Set your blink rate</li>
<li>Do some other stuff</li>
<li platform="Linux">Do a special thing for Linux</li>
</ul>
</p>
</body>
</topic>

.ditamap:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE map PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA Map//EN"
"../dtd/map.dtd">


<map title="Eclipse content aggregated by a map">
   <topicref href="conditional.dita" type="topic"></topicref>
</map>

.valfile:

<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<val>
   <prop att="audience" val="administrator" action="flag">
      <startflag><alt-text>ADMIN</alt-text></startflag>
   </prop>
   <prop att="product" val="extendedprod" action="exclude"/>
</val>

Output:

Maintaining

You maintain your solution to ensure that all components are operating at maximum efficiency.

Set the configuration options:

Set your blink rate
Do some other stuff
Do a special thing for Linux

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Thank you for the suggestion, Bob. I'll give it a shot.

Cheers,

Chris

Try submitting this question to the dita-users.org mailing list.

I expect you will get more answers.

Bob Doyle

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