I have a friend who has the following problem and I told her lots of smart people come here and maybe one of them can help. Here goes:
I’ve got to use DITA Open Toolkit. Unfortunately, I’m not all that familiar with how to, and there doesn’t seem to be a lot of information out there to peruse.
Nobody else on the interwebs seems to have had their build fail due to this error:
Code:
Unexpected element “{}map”
And I’ve read hackos’ book, the OT doc, the OASIS specs (gurgle), the ant mail lists, and everything I can google.
It feels like I’m just making a simple mistake.
If you can help, please PM me and I’ll give you her email address. I’ll owe you one.
The description of the error though looks like she’s compiling some kind of code and the compiler is coming across something it didn’t expect.
There’s probably 2 reasons for this. She needs to declare {}map earlier or she’s got missing syntax in the lines preceding the error that means the compiler doesn’t think that {}map should be there yet.
Get her to check for missing semi-colons or open quote marks and unmatched brackets.
When I see similar it is for a missing bracket or parenthesis (they must be in pairs) {ooh! lookit! like that pair!} [and there’s another pair! gosh!]. I’m not familiar with this app, so I was hestitant to respond.
Yeah, that’s as far as I got before I knew I wasn’t going to be able to help.
I think the developers will be the only ones to be any help. If I had to guess
I’d say it was a version of Java or one of its packages that don’t agree with
the DITA code, but I noticed that’s already been mentioned on another forum
where your friend already asked this question.
