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Using DITA for publishing documentation in Eclipse Help format

Blog entry: Submitted by wildwildleha on Tue, 2009-04-28 13:54.

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.

CMS/DITA North America, Day 1

Blog entry: Submitted by Michael Priestley on Tue, 2009-04-28 13:49.

A very interesting first day. Some quick notes:

thead variant – row label

Forum topic: Submitted by ngn_at_ebbr on Tue, 2009-04-28 08:55.

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.