XMetaL Tag View Does Not Display Some Bookmap Elements

[pmasal]

In XMetaL Enterprise 5.5, the tag view and map views don't display some elements (like ). Is there any way to easily enable them?
Thanks as always,
Paul Masalsky, EMC

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[Su-Laine Yeo]

The Map Editor view doesn't display any metadata elements, however when I switch to the XML View for a bookmap I can insert and see elements. This is using XMetaL Author Enterprise 5.5 Service Pack 1. Are you using a specialized bookmap, or have you made any changes to your configuration files?

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[pmasal]

Thank you, Su-Laine. I tried the same thing with the tag view, but can't see , which is in the XML source for the bookmap (standard DITA 1.1 bookmap, no specialization).

I have attached a picture of my tag view, XML source view in Wordpad, and my XMetaL version information. Think I need SP1?

Thanks!
Paul

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[Su-Laine Yeo]

Hi Paul,

Hmm, that stylesheet looks really old. Can you download the latest stylesheets from here, install them, and see if that solves the problem? :
http://forums.xmetal.com/index.php/topic,325.0.html

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[pmasal]

Hi, with all due respect, I don't see how these new stylesheets are going to help with bookmap. Thbre are 2 new css files in the package:

ditabase-base.css
ditabase-derived.css

But for XMetaL Author 5.5 bookmap_bookmap.css in C:Program FilesXMetaL 5.5AuthorDITAXACsbookmap, only the following are called out:

@import url(..sharedbookmap-base.css);
@import url(..bookmapbookmap-base-override.css);
@import url(..sharedbookmap-derived.css);
@import url(..bookmapbookmap-derived-override.css);
@import url(bookmap_bookmap-specialized.css);

Am I missing something in the updated stylesheet package? Should I update the specialized bookmap css to call the css files included in the package? Thanks!!
Paul

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[Su-Laine Yeo]

Hi Paul,

You're right, of course – the CSS files I attached before aren't the ones being used for bookmaps. Doh!

The most likely cause of this issue that one of your CSS files has the following statement:
[class~=”topic/data”] {
display: none;
}

The bookmap-specific stylesheets I'm attaching to this post should solve the problem. These are the stylesheets that are installed with XMetaL 6.0.

To use them:
1) Back up your C:Program FilesXMetaL 6.0AuthorDITAXACs folder
2) Unzip the attached file and drop its contents into C:Program FilesXMetaL 6.0AuthorDITAXACs .

If these don't solve the problem, we can take a closer look at your stylesheet files.

Su-Laine

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[pmasal]

I'm now well on my way toward a well-customized bookmap CSS, thanks your help. The culprit was actually:

/* topicmeta */
[class~=”map/topicmeta”] {
display: none; }

Since al the bookmap metadata is within , the CSS was hitting the map/topicmeta class condition and therefore not displaying the metadata.

Once I changed it to a block display, I can now format the metadata elements as desired.

Many thanks!!
Paul Masalsky
EMC

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