Archive - 2007

Question: Why does one file overwrite the other file even if they were saved as different file names?

I use Epic Editor to create dita files. Here's a problem I came across recently:

I created a concept topic and saved it as c_admin.dita. While the file is still open, I saved it as another file c_client.dita and changed the concept id. I created a totally new content for c_client.dita and saved and closed it when I finished, believing I had two concept files now.

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Inmedius Horizon

Inmedius Horizon facilitates the professional management of content, delivering the tools and information to efficiently manage a technical documentation publications operation. The powerful combination of a flexible library system, with business intelligence delivered through a unique Dashboard approach, gives you complete command over your information assets. Users also benefit by its tight integration with both Microsoft® Project and Excel. It is the only system that defines, builds and maintains its own internal Project schedule for each item.

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FrameMaker-DITA Yahoo Group

The FrameMaker-DITA group is moderated by Kay (Ethier) Whatley. It is a private effort by a team of individuals and is not a corporate project.

The group is a large, interacting community of hundreds (900 as of October 2007).

Emails not on point may be declined by the moderator. Information posted is not copyrighted to the group but to the original poster.

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DITA Users International Organization

DITA Users help one another become topic-based authors.

We are an international membership organization (400 members from 21 countries) that includes

  • Individuals learning DITA.
  • Organizations moving to single-source authoring and multi-channel publishing.
  • Vendors of XML Editors and XML Content Management Systems.

The website provides members with individual workspaces for their DITA documents.

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dita-users Yahoo Group

This mailing list to support DITA was set up as a Yahoo Group by IBM in May 2004 and called the IBM DITA Forum.

Main page: https://groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/
Post a message: dita-users@yahoogroups.com
Subscribe: dita-users-subscribe@yahoogroups.com

It now has over 4000 members and is the main mailing list for the DITA community.

Links to several other DITA-related mailing lists can be found here. 

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