Archive - 2008

Making Friends with Your DITA-Unfriendly Documents

By:
Don Bridges & Mikhail Vaysbukh
Data Conversion Laboratory

DITA is a hot topic in the 'Tech Docs' arena, and for good reason. DITA is an open standard that addresses many of the needs of technical documentation producers - most notably content reuse needs. The big question for many companies, once they've determined that authoring in this new standard would be beneficial for them, is what to do with the treasure trove of existing documents, known as legacy documents. Would they be useful converted into DITA, and is it worth the effort?

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[Webinar] Getting Started with DITA: Practical Tips for Using Arbortext for DITA, February 19 1PM ET

Location: 
Online
Date: 
19 Feb 2008 - 13:00 - 14:00

Four-column Relationship Table

Four-column Relationship Table

Improving Relationships in Relationship Tables

A team encounters quite a few challenges when transitioning from unstructured to structured writing. For my team, the struggles associated with learning DITA and following the DITA structure were minor compared with the challenges presented by corralling hundreds of individual topics into a logical hierarchy. The biggest challenge we faced was managing topic relationships.

In DITA, related topics can be managed either in the DITA topics themselves, or via DITAMAPs using relationship tables <reltable>.

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Documentation and Training West 2008

Location: 
Vancouver Marriott Pinnacle Downtown
Date: 
6 May 2008 - 12:00 - 9 May 2008 - 12:00
Event Type: 
Conference
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