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DITA Specialization Support: It Should Just Work

From Eliot Kimber's XML 2007 Lightning Round Presentation: "DITA's specialization mechanism both enables sophisticated generic processing and effectively demands that tools provide it. That is, when presented with valid, conforming DITA documents, tools should "just work," applying all appropriate default DITA processing and behavior without any up-front configuration (with the possible exception of specifying the entity resolution catalog needed to resolve references to DTDs and schemas). Not many tools beyond the DITA Open Toolkit actually do just work. RSuite does.

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Stilo International Seeks Partners to Test Drive DITA

Seeking Partners to Test Drive DITA

Stilo International recently announced the introduction of Stilo Migrate, a ground-breaking on-demand service set to dramatically simplify the migration of legacy documents to DITA or other single-source publishing environments.

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Introduction to DITA: A User Guide to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture Arbortext Edition

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.

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Author-it introduces first content management system with authoring memory

New Author-it Xtend™ Feature Gives Companies the Fastest, Most Powerful ToolFor Reuse of Information; Dollar Savings, Message Consistency Will Result
AUCKLAND, New Zealand – November 2007--Author-it Software Corporation, a world leader in software for authoring, content management, publishing, and localization, today announced the introduction of Author-it 5.0, the first content management system to include interactive authoring memory. This memory product feature will be known as Author-it Xtend™.

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OASIS members propose 'DITA for Enterprise Business Documents' Subcommittee

Members of the OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC have published a proposal for a Subcommittee focusing on 'Enterprise Business Documents'. The proposal document presents a brief discussion of the increasing usage of DITA for a broad range of narrative business documents that has led to a proposal for a DITA Enterprise Business Documents Subcommittee. It includes preliminary goals of the committee, and a discussion of the rationale for each goal.

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