Archive - Jul 2008

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Content Data Solutions, Inc.

Content Data Solutions (Content DSI), a software and systems integrator, has been working with XML for more than a decade. Content DSI’s XML capabilities range from data and workflow analysis to data conversion, DTD and schema development, as well as the integration of XML-based authoring and editing software. Using industry standards such as DITA, our capabilities help companies standardize their diverse information and store it in a central data repository in order to utilize it in a content management or product catalog system.

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The Wisdom of Crowds Meets the Wisdom of Authors: How XML Enables the Semantic Web

The Wisdom of Crowds Meets the Wisdom of Authors: How XML Enables the Semantic Web

By my colleague, Paul Wlodarczyk the VP of Solutions Consulting for JustSystems: 

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Problems finding the right architecture

hi there,

i'm trying to convince our developers and intermediate management to focus on DITA in our next software generation, a web-based application for government administration. the difficulty is: i'm left alone on that task and have no help whatsoever since documentation is seen as very unimportant (but everybody will be complaining in the end when there's no documentation).

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Using DITA for documenting a web-based application but forced to used mediawiki

hi (and apologies for the long text - it just did not work out shorter),

i work @ a company that creates web applications for government administrations (before that we delivered client-software). this software is used by a multitude of different stakeholders and therefore demands several types of documentation. our software is very feature-rich and highly configurable, our web interfaces are complex. so we need a flexible solution for a documentation that can easily be adjusted to fit different configurations.

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mstrubberg

IMAP Structure Information Type and DITA

What DITA topic type (reference or concept) best logically fits the IMAP Structure information type?

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