Archive - 2008
History of DITA
The history of DITA is the history of its many powerful characteristics - modularity, structured writing, information typing, separation of content from presentation, single-sourcing, minimalism, topic-based, task-orientation, content reuse, conditional processing, localization-friendly, multi-channel, component publishing, usability, consistency, object-orientation, inheritance, specialization, simplified XML.
The Mu (2)
Observations at CMS/DITA NA
Working with links
There are three basic ways of handling links in DITA, whether they are external hypertext links or links to other DITA files in your docset.
The three kinds of links are:
Blogs
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This page provides a chronological list of DITA-related blog posts created here and on other sites.
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Bob Doyle
DITA Tools from A to Z
I wrote the cover story for the special DITA issue of STC Intercom, April 2008. All the authoring tool vendors sent me licensed copies for testing.
Here is the tease for the story:
DITA's promise of topic-based structured authoring is not merely better documentation. lt is the creation of mission-critical information for your organization, written with a deep understanding of your most important audiences, that can be repurposed to multiple delivery channels and localized for multilingual global markets.