Comtech Services, Inc. is pleased to announce the publication of the Arbortext® Edition of its best-selling book, Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture. Dr.
Archive
Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture Arbortext Edition
Bob Doyle
Assembly Line Writers
For the past three years, my annual wrap-up of content management systems for EContent Magazine has mostly counted the exploding number of branded products, for sale and open source, on the world market—now nearing 3,000.
XMLmind XML Editor
XMLmind XML Editor allows to edit large, complex, modular, XML documents. It makes it easy mastering XML vocabularies such as DocBook or DITA. (More info.)
As you can see it in the screen shot below, XMLmind XML Editor is not a tool for programmers. Its users are generally technical writers.
Extending the DITA Open Toolkit
Robert Anderson, IBM Chief Architect of the DITA Open Toolkit, discussed Customizing the Output of the Open Toolkit at the November meeting of the Silicon Valley DITA Interest Group.
You can find the 90-minute presentation in the Open Toolkit Tutorials section of the DITA Users website.
Robert presented remotely from Minneapolis. DITA Users from around the world attended the meeting remotely via an Elluminate screen sharing session.
DITA Redux
Nearly two and a half years ago, the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) officially approved the Darwin Information Typing Architecture Standard 1.0, completing the transition from many years of software development at IBM, reaching back to the mid-1990’s before the introduction of XML.