Perhaps I spoke too soon about it mostly working:
Transformation fails with "URI has a fragment component" when calling a <mapref> with a <ditavalref> #3680
https://github.com/dita-ot/dita-ot/issues/3680
Dang.
Chris
From: Chris Papademetrious
Sent: Thursday, January 14, 2021 2:07 PM
To:
Subject: instantiating a shared bookmap from multiple profiled wrapper maps
Does DITA support “wrapper maps” that can instantiate a bookmap with DITAVAL profiling applied?
For example, I tried something like the following:
productA.ditamap:
<map>
<ditavalref href="" style="color:black;background:#FCD116">A.ditaval"/>
<mapref href="" style="color:black;background:#9ED267">shared.ditamap"/>
</map>
productB.ditamap:
<map>
<ditavalref href="" style="color:black;background:#FCD116">B.ditaval"/>
<mapref href="" style="color:black;background:#9ED267">shared.ditamap"/>
</map>
where
shared.ditamap is a bookmap with full frontmatter/chapter/appendix structure, etc.
My hope was for the top-level wrapper map to apply its DITAVAL, then “dissolve away,” leaving a regular bookmap structure in place for processing. It mostly worked (yay!!), but there were a couple rough edges with missing bookmap metadata
and an extra level of output directory structure. Maybe I’m missing some kind of attribute on the mapref to do the dissolving away…
I can supply the above testcase if anyone is interested in having a look. This is something that we badly need a solution for.
I am also exploring the use of DITA-OT project files (setting outputFile.base to each deliverable name as needed), but I’m starting with the mapref-oriented machinery first. Both could be useful in different situations. I need to assess
writer ability to create/self-service conditional books (will a nontechnical writer glaze over when looking at a DITA-OT project file?), Oxygen support and how it presents controls to the writer, how they work with XSLT refactoring scripts and our in-house
perl processing utilities, and so on.
Thanks!
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