RE: [Serna] Getting Serna to recognize a DITA specialization

Daria Chernova wrote:

>You should create Serna's template (*.sdt) where set all metadata for
your type of document.
>See documentation:
>Syntext Serna 3.5 Developer's Guide -> Document Template Development

http://www.syntext.com/products/serna/doc/developers_guide/#doc-tmpl-dev
tells us that the xml-schema element of an sdt file is the "Path to XML
schema for document validation", that dtd-pubid "Specifies DTD PUBID for
newly created documents," and that dtd-sysid "Specifies DTD SYSID for
newly created documents." If the DTD specifications are only for IDs in
new documents, it sounds like Serna support for DITA specialization
requires the use of a W3C schema instead of a DTD. IS this true? It was
my understanding that, in the DITA world in general and in the DITA Open
Toolkit specifically, specialization using W3C schemas was a bit behind
DTD-based specialization. 

Has anyone successfully created DITA specialization sdt and xsd files so
that the full Serna DITA menu (Insert External Conref, etc.) worked with
elements that were not part of the DITA standard? 

Thanks,

Bob

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Sent: Tuesday, October 16, 2007 8:18 AM
To: DuCharme, Bob
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Subject: Re: [Serna] Getting Serna to recognize a DITA specialization

Hello Bob,

> The  Serna+DITA Tutorial is good, but I couldn't find any 
> documentation on setting up Serna to recognize a DITA specialization
when it sees one.
> if I have a document with a valid myTask element based on the DITA 
> task element using DITA syntax so that the DITA Open Toolkit knows 
> what to do with a myTask element, how can I get Serna to recognize it?

> (Despite the document pointing to a DTD that declares myTask and 
> includes all necessary connections to the DITA DTD modules, Serna 
> tells me "Element type for '{}myTask not found [myTask]").

You should create Serna's template (*.sdt) where set all metadata for
your type of document.
See documentation:
Syntext Serna 3.5 Developer's Guide -> Document Template Development

As an example you may take sdt file for the DITA task:
"c:\Program Files\Syntext\Serna-3.5\plugins\dita\oasis-dita-task-11.sdt"

Thank you.
Regards,
Daria Chernova

> thanks,
>
> Bob
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