This year is the tenth anniversary of the Defense Department's development of the Sharable Content Object Reference Model and SCORM is on its way to dominating the content marketplace for on-line courseware, both educational and corporate. SCORM is now managed by the Advanced Distributed Learning (ADL) Initiative, a part of the office of the Secretary of Defense, which now requires that all eLearning materials be SCORM compliant.
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Conditional Inclusion
Hello All,
I am trying to migrate from a "home grown" SGML system which filters based on conditional inclusion. On output, the processor sees a list of product codes. It includes an element if the element has a 'product' attribute with an explicit value that includes at least one of those codes and omits it if the value includes none of those codes.
eLearning Content with DITA and SCORM
DITA: Getting Started
Bluestream announces OEM agreement with RenderX
Vancouver, BC, Canada, June 1, 2007 – Bluestream Database Software Corp., leader in XML content management and database technology, announced today an OEM partnership with RenderX, the recognized industry leader for software used for standards-based, typeset-quality electronic and print output of business content and technical publications.
Production Accounting Solution Knowledge Base/Help System
At CGI in Calgary, CGI and 4 sponsor companies are developing a new software program for production accountants in the oil and gas business. Along with the software, the writing team is developing the Help system using the DITA framework. We store information and reusable text in DITA topics and generate Eclipse Help. We have found the benefits of using DITA over the Help authoring tool we were using (RoboHelp) include DITA's reuse capability, link control via relationship tables and the output control through ditamaps.