Archive - 2010

Expose your existing DITA content investment through Office

Repurposing your DITA content investment has never been simpler! We, at DITALabs, would like to introduce our awesome office integration suite of products. Easily search and reuse your DITA topics and maps from MS Word, Outlook and powerpoint. Our system integrates with existing content management systems, including Alfresco, MS Sharepoint and even your file system!

It enables you to deliver the right information, to the right people, in a fraction of the time. This and more using the products you already know.

Some benefits include:

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Video of DITA for Help presentation

The attached zip file contains an unedited video of the presentation given by Ben Allums and Stan Doherty to the Central Texas, Boston, and RTP DITA Users' Groups. The video runs about 89 minutes.

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XMLmind XML Editor V4.6

Highlights:

The new Link tool has been designed to allow quickly
creating navigation links (e.g. DITA xref and link
elements).

While very convenient to use when editing a monolithic
document, the Link tool really shines when it comes to
creating navigation links in the context of a modular
document (modular DocBook book, DITA map or bookmap, etc).

More information:

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Topic Based Authoring Workshop with Linda Urban

Location: 
Concord, CA
Date: 
5 Jun 2010 - 09:30 - 17:00
Event Type: 
Training Class

Implementing Context-Sensitive Help - Technology isn't the only challenge

Creating a successful context-sensitive help solution requires the
cooperation and respect of two groups which have a history of poor
working relations: Development and Technical Publications. Each group
has an established "best practice", i.e. "the way", that ensures a
successful deliverable. Tension comes from an unwillingness to
compromise on those established practices. Compromise means change,
change that will either enable the creation of useful customer solutions
or change that results in broken builds, failure, and finger pointing.

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XML.org Focus Areas: BPEL | DITA | ebXML | IDtrust | OpenDocument | SAML | UBL | UDDI
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