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Creating a publication configuration file

Copy a template XML file for your document type and edit it to configure publication configuration directives.

Procedure

  1. Navigate to the templates\conf\ subfolder of the LiveContent S1000D home directory.
  2. Find the template configuration file for your specification, say, S1000D_template.xml.
  3. Copy this file to the conf subdirectory of your application data folder, and rename it to the name of your publication. For example, after copying, rename S1000D_template.xml to MyPub.xml
  4. Open the configuration file and configure all of the required configuration directives, as well as any optional ones you wish to configure. To configure a directive, enter the following inside the <application> section of the file:
    <configitem name="DIRECTIVE">
      <value>VALUE</value>
    </configitem>

    where DIRECTIVE is the name of the directive, and VALUE is the value of that directive.

    Whenever your directive value is a directory path, make sure that:
    • you use absolute paths, not relative paths
    • you use backslashes on a Windows system and forward slashes on a Linux system
    • your directory path contains no hash character (#).