DocZone.com™ Announces 5-Year ASP Contract with Spyker Cars
Heemstede, the Netherlands – DocZone.com (www.doczone.com) today announced the sale of a 5-year ASP contract to Spyker Cars. Under the terms of the service agreement, Spyker Cars will use the DocZone DITA-based content management and publishing platform to manage the creation, localisation, and publishing of automotive manuals for Spyker vehicles.
The DITA design has a unified content reuse mechanism by which an element can replace itself with the content of a like element elsewhere, either in the current topic or in a separate topic that shares the same content models. The distinction between reusable content and reusing content, often a problem for authors trying to use file and text entities, disappears: Any element with an ID, in any DITA topic, is reusable by conref.
Learn about DITA Maps and how you can use them to organize topics for different purposes.
Maps let you organize topics that you want to build into an output web or PDF. You can also generate navigation files based on the map structure, and generate links that get added to the topics.
A topic is a chunk of information organized around a single subject. Structurally, it is a title followed by text and images, optionally organized into sections. Topics can be of many different types, the most common being concepts, tasks, and reference.
Topics are the basis for high-quality information. They should be short enough to be easily readable, but long enough to make sense on their own.
This architecture supports the proper construction of specialized DTDs from any higher-level DTD or schema. The base DTD is ditabase DTD, which contains an archetype topic structure and three additional peer topics that are typed specializations from the basic topic: concept, task, and reftopic. The principles of specialization and inheritance resemble the principle of variation in species proposed by Charles Darwin. So the name reminds us of the key extensibility mechanism inherent in the architecture.
