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Anonymous
July 8, 2009
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FM8 and DITA: attribute "rotate" in table entries

  • July 8, 2009
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Hi there,

I tried to add the attribute "rotate" for table entries. The Developer's guide and the additional reference guide were a good help here. Everything you need for your dtd and read/write rules is listed there.

<!ATTLIST entry

...

rotate %yesorno; #IMPLIED

...

>

element "entry"

{

...

attribute "rotate" is fm property rotate;

...

}

In the EDD, the attribute has not to be added, I think.

But anyway: I have added this attribute to some table entries. And now I always get the error message that the attribute 'rotate' was not declared for the element 'entry', when I open the xml-file in FrameMaker.

Does anyone know, what else I have to do?

Thanks in advance,

Anna

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Anonymous
July 8, 2009

Hmmm, just answered this question myself

I just noticed that it the problem is due to the external dtd that is given in the read/write rules ...

There is a wrong reference given.

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babelgone
Participant
April 5, 2010

were you able to use the rotate attribute in the XML to apply special table handling? i have a similar attribute, but i cannot figure out how to pass it off to FM as a formatting instruction.

thanks!

-seth park

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Anonymous
April 27, 2010

Hi Seth,

I just use the rotate attribute for some entries. I haven't tried until now to specify that the text should always be rotated for a special table/col.

I cannot image how this would work, though.

It's not possible with the template nor the EDD nor the r/w rules.

Perhaps it would be possible to use FrameScript for this. You might want to consult Russ Ward or Michael Müller-Hildebrand for this.

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