Archive - May 2009

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Call for Speakers: DITA Europe 2009

Dear Friends,

The Center for Information-Development Management (CIDM) ask you to consider bringing your best practices to the upcoming DITA Europe conference.

We welcome discussions of selecting a DITA solution, implementing DITA in your organizations, as well as technical topics about DITA processing, specialization, and so on.

The 5th Annual DITA Europe Conference will be held 16-17 November 2009 in Munich Germany.

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Collaborative topic-based authoring, powered by NomaDesk

Hi DITAaficionados

DITA and topic-based authoring has opened up a lot of new ways to collaborate on content development. If you work with geographically dispersed teams, however, you need to have a "platform" (or "workspace") to share and exchange your files. This platform can be a content management system or ...NomaDesk®.

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Design for Item 12031 CVF support in DITA OT

Note: This is a design discussion about how to implement Controlled Values Files - a major item in the upcoming DITA 1.2 standard - within the DITA Open Toolkit. For information about this new OASIS feature, please see the approved proposal here:
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/26359/IssueControlledV...
along with the post-approval clarifications:
http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/scheme_map_clarifications

 

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jhackos

E-book Offering Helps Introduce DITA to New Writers and Implementers

I am very excited about the new e-book we have produced for the Introduction to DITA. Those who already have a paper version might want to consider the electronic version to support cutting and pasting the XML markup. Others might find this an innovative way to get started using DITA in their organizations.

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Electronic version of Introduction to DITA

Comtech Services, with the assistance of Eurofield Information Solutions, has released an electronic version of the popular Introduction to DITA. The eCompress version allows you to read online, search for content, add bookmarks and notes, and send notes to other subscribers. We can also send updates to everyone who has a copy. The electronic version is designed for use on one computer and allows you to cut-and-paste the XML code samples into your own documents.

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