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Next Major Release of Vasont Content Management System

News: Submitted by carolgeyer on Tue, 2011-04-12 15:38.

Vasont Systems announced the release of the next major version of their XML content management system (CMS), Vasont® ST, that enables users to store multilingual content once for maximum reuse and delivery to multiple channels. This release strengthens the CMS's modular content management and project management solutions for DITA and non-DITA applications...Vasont ST supports the latest release of the DITA standard, DITA 1.2,
as well as other standard and custom DTDs.

Codex

Product: Submitted by kozyniak on Fri, 2011-04-08 07:53.

Codex is a new type of editor that enables anyone to author XML-based DITA content easily and affordably. Codex combines the simplicity of a rich text editor with the power of the DITA file format. Subject-matter experts and non-technical authors can use Codex to create and edit basic DITA topics and maps that can then be used directly in sophisticated XML publishing processes, eliminating the need for copying and pasting or file conversions.

Codex Systems announces release of Codex DITA editor for non-technical authors

News: Submitted by kozyniak on Fri, 2011-04-08 07:39.

TORONTO, Canada — April 5, 2011

Codex Systems today announced the release of Codex®, a new type of editor that enables anyone to author XML-based DITA content easily and affordably. With Codex non-technical authors can create and edit simple DITA topics and maps that can then be used in sophisticated XML publishing processes.

In pursuit of the ultimate techCom information architecture

What is a Meaningful Result Statement (MRS) in SeSAM?

Blog entry: Submitted by Jonatan Lundin on Tue, 2011-04-05 14:11.

SeSAM has gained a level of interest lately (www.sesam-info.net). The controversial part of SeSAM is that an information analysis, to determine what content to write in end user documentation for a technical product, is not starting with an analysis of users, their goals and tasks, but the Meaningful Result Statements (MRS). Don’t get me wrong here; knowledge about users are a fundamental part of SeSAM, but they are not the first thing you focus on. Most of the content you need to write is derived from the MRSs. So what is a meaningful result statement? Read this blog post to find out.