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Syncro Soft Announces New Release of Oxygen XML Editor

Syncro Soft Announces New Release of Oxygen XML Editor version 14.2

Release date: February 14, 2013

Syncro Soft, the developer of the Oxygen XML suite of products, announced the immediate availability of version 14.2 of its Oxygen XML Editor, Oxygen XML Author and Oxygen XML Developer products containing a comprehensive set of tools supporting all the XML related technologies.

Version 14.2 of oXygen XML Editor adds important features for both XML Development and XML Authoring.

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5 Minute DITA Tutorial

This 5-minute Flash-based tutorial introduces DITA Topics, Specializations for Concept, Task, and Reference, and shows how Topics are organized with DITA Maps for publishing to multiple formats.

View the tutorial here. 

For your convenience, below are the eight slides used in the animated and narrated tutorial. If you want higher-quality images to use in a DITA presentation, please contact Bob Doyle.

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Resources for Beginners with the DMM

Michael Priestley of IBM and Amber Swope of JustSystems have prepared a Q&A about the DITA Maturity Model that will help you to understand it and get started.

DITA Maturity Model Q&A.

 

Installing OT on the Mac

The DITA Open Toolkit User Guide devotes a lot of attention to Windows
and Linux but gives Mac OS X scant attention. The brief Mac installation section on page 58 simply says

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Troubleshooting specialization

The DITA Troubleshooting specialization creates a new topic type that is well-suited for problem-solution information. This topic type is based on the generic DITA topic type, and is based on the OASIS DITA standard.

The Troubleshooting specialization should be placed in the \plugins directory of the Open Toolkit. You should run ant -f integrator.xml on the command line from the toolkit root directory after unzipping the package. This will properly "integrate" the package.

Download the DITA Troubleshooting plug in here.

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