Richard Hamilton, author of Managing Writers has reviewed Practical DITA on his XML Press website. Read the review at the linked site.
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Producing PDFs using Bookmap
Presentation at the March 25, 2009 meeting of the RTP DITA Users' Group by Julio Vazquez, Systems Documentation, Inc.
The presentation will describe the bookmap specialization and how the DITA Open Toolkit currently processes the bookmap to produce PDFs. Julio also will present a methodology to minimize the maintenance problems associated with managing similar maps for print and HTML.
XSLT coding practices in the DITA-OT
The core developers on the DITA Open Toolkit generally try to keep several coding practices and design patterns in mind when adding to the toolkit's XSLT code. If you are interested in digging around in the DITA Open Toolkit, or in contributing XSLT patches back to the core toolkit, you may want to keep these practices in mind:
Richard Hamilton reviews Practical DITA
Stilo cuts the cost of DITA content migration
1 April 2009, Swindon, United Kingdom – Stilo International today unveiled a radical Q2 promotion that significantly reduces the cost of content migration. Organizations that need to convert legacy content, such as Word, FrameMaker and HTML files into DITA XML can now do so for just $1 per page and $1 per graphic.
DITA4Joomla!
A recent project requirement of mine has prompted the development of DITA extensions for the popular open source Joomla! 1.5 content management system (CMS).
The DITA4Joomla Project enables the authoring, management and publishing of DITA content through the Joomla! CMS.