Archive - Mar 2008 | DITA XML.org

DITA and Content Management with Steve Wiseman

News: Submitted by carolgeyer on Fri, 2008-03-07 22:03.

Making the best decision for your documentation needs should be based on business considerations, not just the appeal of XML-based Content Management. XML is exciting; DITA is the hottest technique to use for Content Management, but is it really what you need in your documentation? Steve Wiseman of WritePoint took all of what Alex Masycheff said and turned it on its head.

The service orientation of … everything

News: Submitted by carolgeyer on Fri, 2008-03-07 21:50. Last updated on Fri, 2008-03-07 21:51.

...One interesting SOA trend that has emerged outside of the traditional application development domain is the service orientation of content—transforming monolithic documents into topic-oriented chunks that can be composed to create new documents and deliverables. DITA was conceived as a model for improving the reuse of content assets by turning them into well defined topic-oriented components.

Arbortext as DITA editor?

Forum topic: Submitted by Pam Fleetman on Thu, 2008-03-06 19:40. Last updated on Fri, 2008-03-07 21:47.

Hi, I'm a tech writer and a new user of DITA. My company says that I can use any DITA editor I want and will buy me an editor (such as Arbortext) if I so choose. I'm wondering whether any of you have any feedback to give me on Arbortext vs. other DITA editors for creating on-line or Web-based Help. I know that JoAnn Hackos promotes the use of Arbortext, given that her new book on DITA uses Arbortext examples throughout.

Installing FrameMaker Adapter for DITA Open Toolkit

Forum topic: Submitted by alevy on Wed, 2008-03-05 21:09.

I am trying to install the FrameMaker Adapter for the DITA Open Toolkit. I was able to add the DITA-OT application to the structapps.fm file in my FrameMaker 8 installation, but when I tried to generate sample FrameMaker output (step 1.3 in the framemake_adapter_adapter0.8\FrameMaker_adapter\ReadMe.html file) with this command:

ant -Dargs.input="samples\sequence.ditamap" dita2fmxml

I received this message: