Re: [Serna] Migrating Custom DITA Templates from 3.4 to 3.5.1

Paul Antonov wrote:
> 
> Eliot,
> 
> it seems that Serna does not use proper template, maybe because you are 
> trying to use obsolete directory layout. Serna searches for '.sdt' 
> (document template) files in two places: in all sub-directories of 
> $DATA_DIR/plugins (Serna3_5.app/Contens/plugins on Mac), and in all 
> sub-directories of location specified by 'Additional plugins' path in 
> Preferences. It is desirable to use paths relative to $TEMPLATE_DIR in 
> your .sdt files, because it makes them location-independent.

I'm not sure I fully understand the implications here. Are you saying 
that all the dependencies for the template (that is, all the components 
of my DTDs) should be stored relative to the templates/ directory?

If so, that's exactly what I'm trying to avoid, having to have multiple 
copies of my local declarations--in the case of DITA stuff, if you've 
got a local install of the Toolkit then you've already had to configure 
it to resolve your local shells and any local specializations you might 
be using--there should be no need to make copies of those for editors 
that can use XML catalogs to resolve the references from shell DTDs to 
their dependencies.

Except for Arbortext Editor (which doesn't support XML catalogs), I 
should, in theory, be able to use a single set of declarations and 
catalogs with all XML editors. That ensures that all DITA-aware tools 
are always using the same exact declarations.

Thanks,

Eliot

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