Archive - Apr 2009

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Alexej Spas DITA blog

Using DITA for publishing documentation in Eclipse Help format

This article discusses main challenges that documentation team faces when it decides to use DITA as a source format for Eclipse Help documentation. It also explains how DITAworks documentation tool plans to address these challenges.

About Eclipse Help

The Eclipse Platform includes its own help system based on an XML table of contents referencing HTML files.  This is a standard way to document Eclipse-based software products.

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Michael Priestley

CMS/DITA North America, Day 1

A very interesting first day. Some quick notes:

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thead variant – row label

The standard definition seems to assume that labels are always column labels that belong in a thead. So, what about a table where the labels belong to rows?

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In terms of structure, the cells in bold are labels identifying the content that follows.

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The Xquery language and the DITA Open Toolkit

Presentation at the RTP Dita Users' Group by Tom Ed White, Tekelec

Xquery is a powerful query language designed specifically for XML content. It
can be used for querying, processing, manipulation, and transformation of xml
content.

This presentation demonstrates how Xquery can be used to add to the feature set of the Dita Open Toolkit by introducing automatic glossary processing.

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Steps and Step Result - Last Step Result at the Margin?

I am using DITA with XMetal. I have been told to move the last step result out to the margin following the last step. I have never seen any instruction written like this.

Example:

1. Do this.

2. Open the window.

    The window opens and displays whatever.

3. Select the whatever.

    The whatever is selected.

4. Click Close.

The whatever is saved.

 

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