Archive - 2008

Using DITA for Eclipse Infocenters and Projects

Eric Sirois, of IBM, presentation to the Central Texas DITA Users Group. This was an extremely valuable session for anyone considering using DITA to consolidate corporate information on a centralized web site, or for delivering component-based information.

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Using DITA For Narrative Documents

I have posted some thoughts on using DITA for narrative documents on the Really Strategies blog: http://blog.reallysi.com/2008/01/dita-applicatio.html

The executive summary is:

By ignoring the existence of the <section> element you quickly realize that nested topics can be used just fine to represent narrative documents with arbitrarily deep nesting of divisions. This potentially opens up a whole class of documents of particular interest to Publishers that might otherwise not seem to be good candidates for ditification.

 

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Migrating legacy content

Advice for preparing unstructured documents for conversion:

Label all headings intended for topics with styles that indicate the intended topic type.

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X-Pubs Conference 2008

Location: 
London, UK
Date: 
23 Jun 2008 - 08:00 - 25 Jun 2008 - 18:00
Event Type: 
Conference

Research Triangle Park (RTP, NC) DITA users' group

Charter The purpose of the RTP DITA Users' Group is to facilitate communication and the sharing of knowledge between DITA users in the Research Triangle Park (RTP) area of North Carolina. Meetings We meet on the fourth Wednesday of each month from 5:30-6:30 PM. Currently our meetings are held at the following location:

Systems Documentation, Inc
1005 Slater Road, Suite 220
Durham, NC 27703.
Communications We have a Yahoo! Groups mailing list. To join, go to http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/rtp-dita/

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