Comments on: DITA round up http://justwriteclick.com/2007/08/09/dita-round-up/ Documentation as conversation Sun, 14 Mar 2010 16:58:51 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.9 hourly 1 By: annegentle http://justwriteclick.com/2007/08/09/dita-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-57 annegentle Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:33:57 +0000 http://justwriteclick.com/2007/08/09/dita-round-up/#comment-57 Hi Ray, You have an excellent question, and I went directly to the DITA-users Yahoo Group archives for an answer. Sure enough, Deborah Pickett says that there are several elements that do have a div class= associated with them, but I'm guessing that shortdesc is not one of them in version 1.1. See http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/6865. However, I don't believe you have to write a specialization to create a div class= for each instance of the element. Rather, you would customize the XSLT that is used to create the XHTML from the DITA files. Every time the XSLT finds a , re-write the transform so that it wraps a div class= around the HTML output. Then your content would be style-able with CSS. Let me know if that description makes sense. I haven't personally modified the DITA OpenTool Kit XSLT, so I can't tell you which files to start poking around in. You might also want to post your question to the dita-users Yahoo group to see if others have experience with this particular styling goal. Greetings to you from Austin, Texas! Thanks for commenting. Hi Ray,
You have an excellent question, and I went directly to the DITA-users Yahoo Group archives for an answer. Sure enough, Deborah Pickett says that there are several elements that do have a div class= associated with them, but I’m guessing that shortdesc is not one of them in version 1.1. See http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/6865.

However, I don’t believe you have to write a specialization to create a div class= for each instance of the element. Rather, you would customize the XSLT that is used to create the XHTML from the DITA files. Every time the XSLT finds a , re-write the transform so that it wraps a div class= around the HTML output. Then your content would be style-able with CSS.

Let me know if that description makes sense. I haven’t personally modified the DITA OpenTool Kit XSLT, so I can’t tell you which files to start poking around in. You might also want to post your question to the dita-users Yahoo group to see if others have experience with this particular styling goal.

Greetings to you from Austin, Texas! Thanks for commenting.

]]> By: Ray Lloyd http://justwriteclick.com/2007/08/09/dita-round-up/comment-page-1/#comment-58 Ray Lloyd Thu, 18 Oct 2007 18:16:19 +0000 http://justwriteclick.com/2007/08/09/dita-round-up/#comment-58 Hi, I read your information on dita and css files and wonder if you've figured out how to get the classes in the xhtml output. For example, say I want to be slightly larger than the body text I would require a class called "shortdesc" in the output. However, I'm not seeing this. The paragraphs with classes seem to be limited. So is this something you have to "specialize"? Thanks for info. By the way, your name seems to be popping up all over when I google for dita and css. Greetings from Belgium. Ray Hi,
I read your information on dita and css files and wonder if you’ve figured out how to get the classes in the xhtml output. For example, say I want to be slightly larger than the body text I would require a class called “shortdesc” in the output. However, I’m not seeing this. The paragraphs with classes seem to be limited. So is this something you have to “specialize”?
Thanks for info. By the way, your name seems to be popping up all over when I google for dita and css.
Greetings from Belgium.
Ray

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