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DITA Conferences

Wiki page: Submitted by Bob Doyle on Sat, 2008-03-15 22:50. Last updated on Sat, 2008-03-15 22:50.

There are several conferences, in North America and Europe, where you can meet with members of the DITA community.

Bright Path Solutions Conferences.

Bright Path Solutions conferences include

DITA 2007 East, DITA 2007 West,

DITABASE,

and FrameMaker Chautauqua.

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CIDM Conferences.

Center for Information Development Management conferences include

DITA North America,
DITA Europe,
and Best Practices.

Installing the DITA Open Toolkit

Wiki page: Submitted by Bob Doyle on Sat, 2008-03-15 22:38. Last updated on Sat, 2012-06-16 09:48.

Note: this page has been moved to http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/latest/.

You can download and install the DITA Open Toolkit from SourceForge.net. Before you download, you should read a discription of the various DITA-OT Packages that are available.

Source Forge has a Home Page for the Open Toolkit, although most current user oriented information is located here on dita.xml.org.

DITA architectural specification 1.1

Wiki page: Submitted by Bob Doyle on Sat, 2008-03-15 22:17. Last updated on Sat, 2008-03-15 22:17.

The official specification of the DITA architecture is available from OASIS.

OASIS DITA Version 1.1. Architectural Specification

The architectural reference defines both a) a set of document types for authoring and organizing topic-oriented information; and b) a set of mechanisms for combining and extending document types using a process called specialization.

The specification consists of:

DITA language reference 1.1

Wiki page: Submitted by Bob Doyle on Sat, 2008-03-15 22:12.

The official specification of the DITA language is available from OASIS.

OASIS DITA Version 1.1. Language Specification

The language reference describes the elements that comprise the topic DTD and its initial, information-typed descendents: concept, reference, task, and glossentry. It also describes the DITA map DTD and its current specialization (bookmap), as well as various topic and map based DITA domains.

Setting up stylesheets and a publishing system

Wiki page: Submitted by Bob Doyle on Sat, 2008-03-15 21:54.

The DITA Open Toolkit is a modest publishing system. The Toolkit transforms DITA content (maps and topics) into publishing deliverable formats for web (XHTML), print (PDF), and Help (CHM and Eclipse). Your output files are simply generated in your file system. It is up to you to move them to your website, or into your print publishing process.