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Michael Priestley

DITA for Kids?

Imagine this scenario:

  • A teacher wants to create some customized lesson materials, starting from Wikipedia
  • They open an editor, type in the name of a wikipedia article, and start dragging and dropping content and images into a new article with just the content they want
  • They selectively combine and edit the content from several articles into new articles which can be organized around themes
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How our DITA Conversion Saved us 100 Grand, for Starters

A Case Study in DITA for Globalization & Localization

By Jennifer Linton, CaridianBCT

Ever wonder how converting to a DITA/XML content management system would play out in real life? What if we added globalization? What if it showed nearly $100,000 savings for the first two deliverables (in 9 languages)?

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DITA XLIFF recorded webinars are available for download

The "DITA to XLIFF and Back" webinars were presented by members of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and XML Localisation Interchange File Format (XLIFF) TCs.

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What are inner and outer topics?

Several toolkit build files refer to inner and outer dita topics. For example, 

<target name="dita.topics.html" unless="noTopic" if="old.transform" description="Build HTML files from inner and outer dita topics,which will adjust the directory.

Any clue what that means?

DITA for Conditional Text (Webinar)

Location: 
http://guest.cvent.com/EVENTS/Info/Summary.aspx?e=cfc03ec8-ff79-48c0-ad5e-3d406a9ba35f
Date: 
31 Oct 2008 - 12:30 - 14:00
Event Type: 
Webinar
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