Archive - Jul 2009

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The DITA Caper

UPDATE on the RealWorld DITA 2009 Conference in Raleigh NC (Sept 2009)

Those of you who have attended our Raleigh DITA conferences before know that we work to set a high quality schedule with technical speakers and relevant topics.  If you know me, you know that I strive to produce events that help users move up from their current level by building an opportunity for them to learn from the right presentation collection and through at-event peer networking.

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Impromptu DITA

Yesterday, we had a DITA session covered by Leigh White. She jumped right in when another speaker had an emergency. With no planning, she made it happen, which was great for the attendees interested in learning about DITA.

DITA 101: Fundamentals of DITA for Authors and Managers

DITA 101: Fundamentals of DITA for Authors and Managers

If you're in the process of implementing DITA, expect to do so in the future, or just want to learn more about it without having to wade through technical specifications, this is the book for you.

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Companies are contributing

Companies are contributing to the upcoming RealWorld DITA 2009 Conference.  Adobe Systems and XyEnterprise have stepped up as sponsors.  Additional companies are "vending" at the event.

Adobe is also sponsoring the Summer XML 2009 conference!  Here is a link to a recent post by Mahesh from Adobe on their blog: http://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/. This post is about the XML conference -- happening tomorrow in Raleigh NC -- and it mentions DITA too.

 

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Can I control what happens to attributes in conref-ed elements ?

When I conref an element, the attributes - excepting id and conref of course - are copied from the source to the reference element. This also happens when updating the conrefs. Is there a way to control this behavior, i.e. suppress it for specific elements ?

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