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November 25, 2005

Using XPath in a FOSI stylesheet with Arbortext

Filed under: Software — cangione @ 12:16 pm

Example syntax:

<savetext conrule="!,#XPATHCONTENT(ancestor::Class/Title)#XPATH,!"

Additional Information:
In the installation tree of Arbortext you should see a directory called
tutorials. Inside of there is a sub-directory called 28001C. Inside of
that sub-directory is an SGML file called "28001C.sgm". This file is the
main definition of the FOSI standard which is sometimes also referred
to as the outspec. The file has notes indicating what parts of the
standard are supported, what parts are not supported, and Arbortext
extensions to the standard. Open this file and search for the string
XPath for more information.


	


	









	 
TeX in a FOSI to rotate text for print/PDF

	
Filed under: Software —  cangione @ 11:55 am 


	

		



According to the documentation, Arbortext doesn't support the rotate attribute on entry in a table. 


You can use the following TeX in a FOSI to rotate text for print/PDF:




usetext source="%\hbox{\special{pub: rotate 45}%,12pt,\YOUR TEXT HERE\,%}%"





	


	







November 2, 2005



	 
The Content Wrangler

	
Filed under: XML —  shiftsport @ 11:17 am 


	

		
Looking for information about Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)? 


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