Archive - 2010

bookmap or ditamap?

I'm looking for some good reasons why you would want to use a bookmap instead of a ditamap.

Obviously, you use a bookmap if you wish to "to produce your DITA topics and even whole DITA maps as the content of a formally defined book. This allows you to produce not only maps for online deliverables, but also PDFs with the same content, replete with covers, formal notices and frontmatter, and so forth." (Source: DITA Architectural Specification v1.1).

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Really Strategies’ DocZone Ranked as Best in Class for Supporting Multilingual Content and Multiregional Process

Audubon, Pa.–February 16, 2010–DocZone by Really Strategies, Inc., the industry’s first award-winning software as a service (SaaS) XML content management system designed for publishers and technical publishers was ranked best-in-class for supporting multilingual content and multiregional process by the independent market research firm, Common Sense Advisory, Inc.

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Tim Grantham

I provide consulting, training, design and implementation services for organizations developing knowledge products with DITA.

Recent projects include customizing the DITA Open Toolkit to produce fully brand-compliant server-based online help (with Javahelp 2.0) and PDF user guides from a single DITA map for a web-based enterprise message management application.

I am also an active member of the OASIS DITA Enterprise Business Documents Technical Sub-committee.

 

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Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2010 conference

Location: 
Santa Clara, CA
Date: 
19 Apr 2010 - 08:00 - 21 Apr 2010 - 05:00
Event Type: 
Conference

DITA for Publishers: How Publishers Can Really Do XML by Eliot Kimber

DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering information. Publishers are starting to take DITA seriously. And if they aren’t, they should be. This panel session will introduce DITA for publishers, the basic publishing-specific DITA components that are completely generic, and how DITA can really be the tool-set that launches publishers into the XML world.

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