Is there any DITA editor that offers global spell check (spell check of all topics in a dita map) or is global spell check only available through a CMS? Same question for global search and replace.

Although XMetaL docs do a good job explaining the application, and how it works with DITA, they don't provide any "how to" information for new users that need to alter the appearance of their docs to accommodate their company's standards. So, I got a preliminary doc from XMetaL, "Customizing DITA PDF Output."

Although I had to burn a Support credit, the doc has been very helpful. However, I cannot get the output I expect. I decided to start with a simple change to the title page, according to the
instructions in their doc.

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Two of my company's heaviest XMetaL users have reported that the application has started to unexpectedly quit, usually when they are copying and pasting large amounts of text.  They were using 4.5, so I upgraded them to 4.6 SP2.  The problem has not been resolved.  The Just System's technical support page offers little information besides the fact that it will cost $100 to ask them this question.  I was just curious if this is anything you've experienced.  I've done the basic maintenance (cleaning off any spyware, disk cleanup, defragmenting, ect.) to no avail.

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I would like to find a DITA-enabled knowledge base that has features like:

• Allows users to create content using forms
• Supports workflow and role-based data entitlement
• Supports taxonomy definition (categories for navigating)
• Supports user tagging of content
• Search (created and attached content, like files associated with content)
• User rating of content

In short, I'd like a Web 2.0 knowledge base that uses DITA as the backend. I'd like to leverage the reuse of DITA and be able to easily deliver it to multiple destinations with less effort.

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Hello All,

I am trying to migrate from a "home grown" SGML system which filters based on conditional inclusion. On output, the processor sees a list of product codes. It includes an element if the element has a 'product' attribute with an explicit value that includes at least one of those codes and omits it if the value includes none of those codes.

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