Archive - 2008

Bob Doyle

New York DITA User Group?

Can we get volunteers to restart the NYDUG?

The single most active content on the DITA.XML.org website is people looking at the now very dated page for DITA Users in New York.

Here are the all-time DITA.XML.org site statistics:

New York DITA Users Group 53210 reads

DITA User Groups 19113 reads

DITA Knowledge Base 15766 reads

Resources 13013 reads

Topic-based authoring 12518 reads

We really should be reaching out to these thousands of potential DITA Users in the New York area!

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Bob Doyle

5-minute DITA Tutorial

I have produced a Flash tutorial that explains DITA topics, concept, task, and reference specializations, and DITA maps.

http://www.ditausers.org/training/DITATopics/

I am also working on Flash tutorials that explain the DITA Users website and toolset, including the DITA Manager for each member's workspace folder.

http://www.ditausers.org/training/DITAUsersWelcome/

Critical comments appreciated. This is a work in progress.

Content Convergence and Integration 2008

Location: 
Vancouver, BC
Date: 
12 Mar 2008 - 08:00 - 14 Mar 2008 - 18:00
Event Type: 
Conference

GCN: Reusable XML

IBM and software vendor JustSystems plan to announce on Tuesday the availability of a methodology that allows organizations to break up huge Extensible Markup Language documents into reusable pieces. The DITA Maturity Model, co-authored by IBM and JustSystems, is the first step-by-step process for implementing DITA, officials from the companies said. DITA is an XML Document Type Definition that can be used to mark up different sections of documents so they can easily be found later and reused in other documents.

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Self on Help

Tripane

In earlier musings about full-text search, I wondered whether the lack of full-text search (FTS) in the standard DITA OT XHTML outputs was restrictive. Bob Doyle pointed out that Eclipse Help InfoCenters provide FTS, and that led to some further wonderings about the complexity of Eclipse Help installations. I've since noticed some DITA users have come up with some ingenius workarounds so that DITA content can be turned into beautiful "WebHelp" output just like that produced by HTML-based Help Authoring Tools.

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