Unordered lists in steps
Wed, 10/30/2013 - 6:54am — smithsks
I am having a difficult time mapping unordered lists in steps. I created aliases for my bullet tags. Here's the groups:
[DITAAliases]
BulletItem<$(($$_ditastart is "task") ? "TaskBullet1" : "BulletItem")>
BulletItem2<$(($$_ditastart is "task") ? "TaskBullet2" : "BulletItem2")>
BulletItem3<$(($$_ditastart is "task") ? "TaskBullet3" : "BulletItem3")>
[DITAParaTags]
TaskBullet*=p
[DITAParents]
TaskBullet=info ul li
TaskBullet2=info $list li ul li
TaskBullet3=info $list li $list li ul li
I also tried using DITATag and DITAParent markers.
FYI: I am using DITA 1.2 content models for , ,and
Regards,
Stan
ol in steps
Your first section is missing equal signs, but we can't tell if it is really that way in your .ini. Perhaps yu meant something like:
[DITAAliases]
BulletItem = <$(($$_ditastart is "task") ? "TaskBullet1" : "BulletItem")>
BulletItem2 = <$(($$_ditastart is "task") ? "TaskBullet2" : "BulletItem2")>
BulletItem3 = <$(($$_ditastart is "task") ? "TaskBullet3" : "BulletItem3")>
Also, when you typed:
FYI: I am using DITA 1.2 content models for <concept>, <task>, and <map>
it came out as:
FYI: I am using DITA 1.2 content models for , ,and
Always use the entity < for < in the forums.
Finally, "having a difficult time" is a little hard to diagnose. Exactly WHAT happens????
ol in steps
Thanks for the quick reply,
It was missing the equal signs. I totally missed that. My test file has two BulletItem2 para tags under the first level NumberItem para tag.
Now I am getting valid XML, but the first child of info is an ordered list, not unordered as it should be. The second bullet is an unordered list, but it is a child of the previous.
Here the current config file:
[DITAAliases]
BulletItem=$(($$_ditastart is "task") ? "TaskBullet1" : "BulletItem")>
BulletItem2=<$(($$_ditastart is "task") ? "TaskBullet2" : "BulletItem2")>
BulletItem3=<$(($$_ditastart is "task") ? "TaskBullet3" : "BulletItem3")>
[DITAFirst]
TaskBullet*=li
[DITAParents]
TaskBullet1=info ul li
TaskBullet2=info $list li ul li
TaskBullet3=info $list li $list li ul li
[DITAParaTags]
TaskBullet*=p
Thank you,
Stan
Stan Smith
Principal Technical Writer
iNetWriter, LLC
ol in steps
You said:
"My test file has two BulletItem2 para tags under the first level NumberItem para tag. Now I am getting valid XML, but the first child of info is an ordered list, not unordered as it should be. The second bullet is an unordered list, but it is a child of the previous."
Yes. That's what your [DITAParents] requires. You have "TaskBullet2=info $list li ul li", but there is nothing under info. So to satisfy that rule, we need to add a member of $list, which has ol and ul. We choose the first in alphabetic order, which is ol, and add the li, but do not skip a level by adding another ul/li. For the second one, we can satisfy the rule by nesting a ul/li under the ol/li, just like you instructed, so we do.
You would get what you want if they were both TaskBullet1 instead of 2.
BTW, your first item under [DITAAliases] is still missing its <.