Ditamap to Frame Book Failure

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4 total messages Started by Stan Stansbury Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:30

#546

Author: Stan Stansbury
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:30

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I'm trying this for the first time, and failing completely.
I have a valid ditamap. At least Frame does not complain when I open it, or when I save it.

However, when I try to use the DITA> Build FM Ditabook from DITA map file command, it immediately fails, usually with this error message:

error at file , line 0, char 0, Message: The URL used an unsupported protocol
Error in XSL Transformation. Stopped file opening.

I have no idea what URL it's talking about, or what to do to try to fix its failure.

Is this just a feature that doesn't work, or is there something I should do?

TIA

Stan Stansbury

Re: Ditamap to Frame Book Failure

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Author: Scott_Prentice
Date: Wed, 12 Nov 2008 00:52

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Hi Stan...

The feature definitely does "work" better than what you're seeing. I've not seen that error before, and it does sound strange especially since it's saying the problem is at line 0 char 0.

Have you made any modifications to the structure applications?

When you run the command, the first dialog is prompting you to select the map file (the one that's probably open), then it prompts for the new book's filename. At which point does this failure happen? After selecting the map? Is there anything special about your files? Can you try a very basic map with two very basic dita files?

Is it possible that the map is not an XML file? Try opening the map in Notepad, and make sure that it hasn't inadvertently been saved as a binary FM file (this can happen if you crash and restore).

Let me know how it goes.

...scott

Re: Ditamap to Frame Book Failure

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Author: Stan Stansbury
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 19:54

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Hi, Scott,

I tried with a couple very small ditamaps, and was able to get a FM book out of them, so I have increased confidence in the feature. There is nothing special that I know of about this ditamap.

I have not made any changes to the structure apps or anything else.
The failure occurs after I choose the ditamap, but before I name the FM book.

I opened and saved in Notepad. No luck. So I opened and saved in FM. Again no luck.

So I went to 2 online XML file validators and validated the ditamap. No errors were found either time.

Re: Ditamap to Frame Book Failure

#426

Author: Scott_Prentice
Date: Tue, 18 Nov 2008 21:17

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Hi Stan...

If you'd like me to take a look, I'd be glad to do so. You can contact me at ..

 <http://leximation.com/contact.php>

Cheers,

...scott

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