Archive - Jun 2006
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Using Parameter Entity Overrides to Eliminate Mixed Content From Stuctural Elements
Allowing mixed content (text and inline tags) to be direct children of structural elements such as section creates usability problems during authoring and adds complexity to transformations. Mixed content in these contexts is not appropriate for authoring. However, this shortcoming does not appear to be the result of an oversight on the part of the DITA architects. Instead, it appears to be an engineering tradeoff that was made facilitate specialization. Allowing mixed content to appear adds a great deal of flexibility to the information architect's toolbox when specializing.
Planning for DITA Success: How to Deploy DITA, Step-By-Step
In part two of a two-part whitepaper series, XMetaL and the Rockley Group, thought-leaders in DITA, describes how to implement DITA effectively in your organization by applying the right tools and technologies.
Planning for DITA Success: How to Set Up the Right Team and the Right Strategy
XMetaL and the Rockley Group, thought-leaders in DITA, shows you the right approach to DITA implementation in the practical whitepaper “Planning for DITA Success: How to Set Up the Right Team and the Right Strategy”. This is part one of a two-part whitepaper series. It contains checklists, practical examples and step-by-step instructions that illustrate how to transition smoothly to a DITA model that delivers success.
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Future approaches to subject classification
There are two main approaches to subject classification currently being explored for future use in DITA, which this page will call the map-based approach and the metadata approach.
In the map-based approach, a taxonomy is represented using a hierarchy in a DITA map. Each member of the hierarchy is a specialization of the <topicref> element. Each <topicref> element points to a topic that describes the subject of that node of the taxonomy.
Taxonomy specialization plug-in
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A plug-in for the DITA toolkit that enables a taxonomy specialization is available for download at sourceforge.net. Although the plug-in is somewhat experimental, it is being used, and merits mention here.
The URL to access the plug-in is:
http://sourceforge.net/project/showfiles.php?group_id=132728
Here are some simple notes on how to retrieve and install the plug-in.
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