I'm sorry but I cannot reproduce the problem you describe. I tried to
reproduce it using this bookmap:
---
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE bookmap PUBLIC "-//OASIS//DTD DITA BookMap//EN"
"http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/dtd/bookmap.dtd";>
<bookmap xml:lang="en-US">
<title>DITA sample topics and bookmap</title>
<frontmatter>
<topicref href="dita-sample/readme.dita"
navtitle="Double-click this line to open" status="changed"/>
</frontmatter>
<chapter chunk="by-topic" href="dita-sample/topic1.dita" locktitle="yes">
<topicmeta>
<navtitle>A sample <xmlelement>topic</xmlelement></navtitle>
</topicmeta>
<topicref href="dita-sample/tables.dita">
<topicmeta>
<navtitle>Tables</navtitle>
</topicmeta>
</topicref>
</chapter>
<chapter href="dita-sample/task1.dita"/>
<chapter href="dita-sample/reference1.dita"/>
<appendix href="dita-sample/concept1.dita"/>
</bookmap>
---
I ran:
---
ditac -f xhtml5 -frontmatter toc,figurelist -p chain-pages both -p
number all out/html/dita-sample.html dita-sample.ditamap
---
And I got a Table of Contents, a List of Figures, the frontmatter
section before the first chapter.
--> The -frontmatter command-line option is useful in the case of a DITA
plain map. In the case of a bookmap, I would rather add a booklists to
the frontmatter. Example:
---
<frontmatter>
<booklists>
<toc/>
<figurelist/>
</booklists>
<topicref href="dita-sample/readme.dita"
navtitle="Double-click this line to open" status="changed"/>
</frontmatter>
---
(booklists can be before or after your topicrefs.)
Works fine too and this without any -frontmatter toc,figurelist
command-line option.
---
PS: Note that all the elements found in your DITA bookmap have class="-
XXX". This is not useful if your DITA source files start with a
<!DOCTYPE> (W2C XML schema and RELAX NG schema declarations work too).
This is quite error prone because if a @class value is incorrect (e.g.
missing space at the end of it), ditac will fail to process the element.
Patrick W. wrote:
Thank you for the assistance, Hussein.
Can you also help clarify the command line syntax for frontmatter? I have
read through and tried to interpret the command and examples in Chapter 3
of the DITA Converter documentation -
https://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/commandLine.html#commandLine
The client has a bookmap with a frontmatter section that does not
publish, containing two topics. I cannot seem to find the correct command
line instructions to generate the <frontmatter> topics in HTML.
The (Windows) command line below produces the table of contents and a list
of figures. But when I add the -frontmatter option, no syntax variation I
try seems to work.
bin\ditac.bat -r resources -frontmatter toc,figurelist -addindex -plugin
BRP -format html -p xsl-resources-directory res
out\XYZ_Plugin\XYZSampleMap\index.html
X0000447154_copy\BRX0000447154.ditamap
Thank you for your help.
Pat Wright
The map is constructed:
<booktitle class="- topic/title bookmap/booktitle ">
<mainbooktitle class="- topic/ph bookmap/mainbooktitle ">Model PRO
130
</mainbooktitle>
</booktitle>
...............................
<frontmatter class="- map/topicref bookmap/frontmatter " id="X001048">
<topicref class="- map/topicref " format="dita"
href="ARX0000447155.dita" id="d7013e15"
navtitle="Operator’s Guide" scope="local" type="concept">
<topicmeta class="- map/topicmeta ">
<navtitle class="- topic/navtitle ">Operator’s
Guide</navtitle>
</topicmeta>
</topicref>
<topicref class="- map/topicref " format="dita"
href="ARX0000227596.dita" id="d7013e19"
navtitle="Know Before You Go" scope="local" toc="no"
type="concept">
<topicmeta class="- map/topicmeta ">
<navtitle class="- topic/navtitle ">Know Before You
Go</navtitle>
</topicmeta>
</topicref>
</frontmatter>
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