Archive - Mar 2007

DITA Storm Online Editor

From the DITA Storm Dev Team:

DITA Storm website is now featuring a free online DITA XML editing service.

Using regular web browser author can create/modify DITA documents stored on the local drive. Online editor is free, requires no installation or registration. Just open your web browser and start authoring DITA documents. Current service runs pre-release version 2.0 of the DITA Storm editor.




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Day Lights

Daylights: Aim high when looking for your next DITA editor

In 2005, I presented a paper at the Annapolis Content Management Strategies conference on a DITA editor evaluation heuristic entitled "Selecting an Authoring Tool for DITA — More than Just Another XML."  The presentation explained a way to assess DITA capabilities in editors that were then emerging in the marketplace.  Its time to revisit that heuristic, as many editors now meet the basic qualifications for DITA awareness.

Basics for XML editors

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Affordable XML Content Management: SaaS Success Stories

Location: 
http://www.kmworld.com/webinars/register.aspx?eventid=194&src=kmb
Date: 
27 Mar 2007 - 10:00 - 11:00

Dynamic Content Delivery using DITA

DITA is the hottest thing to have hit the technical publishing world in a long time. With its topic-based approach to authoring, DITA frees you from the need to think in terms of "books", and lets you focus on the underlying information. This new industry whitepaper from Flatirons Solutions and Mark Logic defines a new publishing paradigm, which we will call dynamic content delivery.

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The 2006 Year in Review for DITA

by Don Day, Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect


The OASIS DITA standard:
The current standard is at DITA 1.0.  During 2006, committee work was focused on developing the proposed DITA 1.1 features (see "Roadmap for DITA development" at http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/Roadmap_for_DITA_development). Just last month, the committee released a Public Review draft for DITA 1.1, which is expected to be approved later this year.

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