Archive - 2007

Using DITA as backend for web-based KB (knowledge base)

I would like to find a DITA-enabled knowledge base that has features like:

  • Allows users to create content using forms
  • Supports workflow and role-based data entitlement
  • Supports taxonomy definition (categories for navigating)
  • Supports user tagging of content
  • Search (created and attached content, like files associated with content)
  • User rating of content

In short, I'd like a Web 2.0 knowledge base that uses DITA as the backend. I'd like to leverage the reuse of DITA and be able to easily deliver it to multiple destinations with less effort.

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Bluestream Releases XDocs 1.1 DITA–enabled XML Content Management System

Vancouver, BC, June 13, 2007 -- Bluestream Corp., the world leader in XML content solutions, today announced the release of XDocs 1.1, an XML-based, single-source content management system that enables organizations to publish content to multiple channels.

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Conditional Inclusion

Hello All,

I am trying to migrate from a "home grown" SGML system which filters based on conditional inclusion. On output, the processor sees a list of product codes. It includes an element if the element has a 'product' attribute with an explicit value that includes at least one of those codes and omits it if the value includes none of those codes.

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eLearning Content with DITA and SCORM

This year is the tenth anniversary of the Defense Department's development of the Sharable Content Object Reference Model and SCORM is on its way to dominating the content marketplace for on-line courseware, both educational and corporate. SCORM is now managed by the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, a part of the office of the Secretary of Defense, which now requires that all eLearning materials be SCORM compliant.

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DITA: Getting Started

Location: 
Milpitas, CA USA
Date: 
21 Aug 2007 - 04:30 - 22 Aug 2007 - 12:30
Event Type: 
Training Class
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