Had an enjoyable meeting this afternoon with a development team, who are now distinctly interested in the possibilities of using XML Mind (of course!) and DITA (of course!) to move from paper-based documentation to good on-line content. Just one snag: when a colleague tried to show the set of web help files I'd given him, the viewer failed. He took a look at the code, and discovered calls to a CSS file at an http: address – we did not have web access during the meeting, and the end-users of our cryptographic accelerator will not have web access either.

Can you suggest a workaround? or, of course, a more appropriate place to ask the question.

Thanks in advance!

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After adding a row, is there a keyboard shortcut to tab from cell to cell?

Oops … in this case, I should of course have been adding an entry to the next column: not trying to tab into nothingness ;-} Making mistakes is one way of remembering what you learn, I suppose.

I realise conversion is not the primary focus of XXE, but I need to ask the question and hope there's an answer I'll be able to understand. We have a number of simple svg diagrams ready to include in a DITA documentation set delivered as Web Help: how do I stop the conversion from replacing these with .png graphics?

I have a stack of valid DITA files to rework that were originally prepared outside XXE. They all include a <prolog> with <author> elements, and now I want to add <metadata>. I've worked out that I need to select the last <author> element and then Insert after to add an empty <metadata> element, but that gives me the unfamiliar metadata > data construct which I have to delete before I can insert <prodinfo>.

What am I doing wrong?

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Really enjoying using XML Mind to get to grips with DITA … and generally remembering to check DITA specs first, as it's clear XML Mind does a good job of implementing them. Here's a two-part question that seems to fall between the two, though; I'll ask it in a way that puts XXE first.

1. does XXE .xhtml output from DITA topics support any sort of mouse-over/pop-up, for example to display a definition from a glossary?
2. if so, which DITA construct do I need to go away and learn about?