Archive - Jul 2007

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How are you most likely to use keyword markup in your DITA maps and topics?

as metadata in the prolog
52% (11 votes)
as semantically-tagged inline content
29% (6 votes)
as specialized keywords for inline content
14% (3 votes)
just rely on index terms
5% (1 vote)
Total votes: 21

A DITA Newsletter and website - DITANews.com

DITA News is a new website that will offer a monthly newsletter, blog aggregation, and a press release mailing list service. It's at http://www.ditanews.com .   DITA News is modelled on two of my CMS (content management) efforts:
  • the CMS-PR mailing list, which I set up for a conference on open-source content management (OSCOM) that I helped organize at Harvard in 2003,
  • the CMS News website, which has been aggregating bloggers for years.  (http://www.CMS-News.org )

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In.vision Research: In.vision Xpress Author for Microsoft Word DITA Accelerator

Xpress Author for Microsoft Word is part of the In.vision DITA Enterprise Suite which is designed to allow organizations to broadly deploy DITA content creation and publishing. Xpress Author is an add-on product that seamlessly combines with Microsoft Word and does not affect Word functions - except when the author chooses to create an XML document.

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In.vision Research: In.vision DITA Studio

DITA Studio is part of the In.vision DITA Enterprise Suite which is designed to allow organizations to broadly deploy DITA content creation and publishing. DITA Studio is an Integrated Design Environment for DITA, providing an application that was build from the ground up with DITA in mind.  DITA Studio supports enterprise or project level content modeling, a flexible user interface for profiling and other types of metadata management, and publishing through the DITA Open Toolkit.

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DITA Version 1.1 Submitted to OASIS Members for Approval as a Standard

Members of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee have released an approved Committee Specification of the DITA 1.1 specification for consideration as an OASIS Standard. Statements of use have been provided by IBM, JustSystems (XMetaL), Flatirons Solutions, PTC-Arbortext, and Comtech Services, Inc. 

Version 1.1 of DITA is made up of four distinct units: an architectural specification, a language specification, and the DTD and Schema implementations of the language. Additional functionality in DITA 1.1:

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