Today I got the word that an article I wrote is available on IBM's DeveloperWorks. 

http://www.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-publish/

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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Are you new to the world of DITA? Have you read the various DITA primers available? If so, you are probably now raring to play with DITA.

Ahh.. writer's block! How do you get started? What and where are you supposed to write? A starting point into a small DITA project would be nice.

Here is a DITA project starter kit that you can use to experiment with DITA, create topics and try building various outputs. The DITA project starter kit contains the following:

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A question was raised recently on the Yahoo! DITA Users mailing list relating to linking via a URL to a specific page in a collection of HTML. The requirement was for the target page to open within the "tri-pane" frameset so that the table of contents was visible.

A number of solutions were mooted, but Martin Polley eventually came up with a solution to fitted the particular requirement (but not necessarily all requirements).

Martin added a function to the top-level frameset of the collection. The function contained the following code:

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Folks starting single-sourcing projects are faced with insufficient resources. The biggest problem with the existing literature is that nearly all of it is theoretical in nature. Most books on single sourcing contain advice about planning, managing, and creating modular projects and documentation. At this, they are very good. What they’re all missing is the bridge between theory and practice. And they’re not alone.

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