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DITA-OT design documents

Book page: Submitted by robander on Fri, 2006-04-21 07:12. Last updated on Fri, 2008-03-21 15:43.

DITA-OT design documents

This document is a jump-off point for sub-pages dedicated to particular DITA-OT design issues.

Active design documents:

Active design should use the DITA Open Toolkit Design Document Template.

Previous design documents for items no longer under development:

SourceForgePatch1326450
DITA OT 1.3 Issues tracking
Syntax Diagram transform notes--table-ordered output
Add new doc links here

Sample CMS requirements

Resource: Submitted by kwilhelm on Thu, 2006-04-20 14:39.

You can use or modify this sample requirements list as part of an RFP to assess CMS vendors. It provides over 200 questions (including some DITA-specific questions) about CMS features and functionality.

Going there, getting the t-shirt (STC, X-Pubs, Cafe Press)

Blog entry: Submitted by Michael Priestley on Tue, 2006-04-18 20:13. Last updated on Wed, 2006-04-19 01:59.

Just an update on my activities:

Presenting at the STC conference May 7th-10th, giving an intro to DITA presentation, co-presenting on task-oriented information architecture with DITA, and also participating in the standards forum to represent DITA and OASIS. For more info: http://stc.org/53rdConf/
Presenting at X-Pubs in England June 20th-21st, giving an intro to DITA presentation, specialization demo, and DITA integration presentation. For more info: http://www.x-pubs.com/
Ordered some DITA OASIS gear at http://www.cafepress.com/oasis_open, hoping to show it off at the aforementioned events.

On the DITA TC front, working hard on the conditional processing feature right now, trying to get to a design we can all agree on for managing the creation of new conditional processing attributes via specialization.

jhackos

DITA in China

Blog entry: Submitted by jhackos on Sun, 2006-04-16 14:02. Last updated on Sun, 2006-04-16 14:10.

Monday 17 April -- Leaving for Shanghai

In 2005, I conducted a benchmark study of the state of technical writing in China. The white paper of this study and our updated India benchmark study is now available on the CIDM website at www.infomanagementcenter.com/publications.htm. Also notice the new website that we launched last week.

Tomorrow I'm leaving for Shanghai for a few days, in part to speak at the LISA Shanghai conference (Localization Industry Standards Association). Dave Schell and I are introducing DITA. I'm also meeting with a Chinese company that will be implementing DITA. I expect many of the discussions at the conference and at the company will focus on the challenge of topic-based authoring. Localization service providers are concerned that handling multiple topics will increase the difficulty of administering the translation workflow.

Thoughts about structured authoring in DITA

Blog entry: Submitted by jhackos on Fri, 2006-04-14 14:47. Last updated on Fri, 2006-04-14 14:54.

The CMS 2006 conference in April in San Francisco showed the energy and enthusiasm that DITA is helping to build for structured content and topic-based authoring, as well as support for content management. We had about 325 people at the conference with about 100 or so attending the DITA track each hour.

We're now planning for DITA Europe the first week in November in Frankfurt. I'd like to hear from interested people in Europe about taking part. We should have a call for papers on the conference website soon.

I'm pleased with the reception of the new DITA User Guide, now being shipped. It will be listed on Amazon soon but is now available on the Comtech web site at http://www.comtech-serv.com/dita.shtml

Archive - 2006