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The Real Promise of DITA is NOT Publishing Cookbooks

Thursday, December 06, 2007

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler

Structured content gurus frequently cite the creation of cookbooks as an example of the power of XML. They use recipes because—we assume—nearly everyone is familiar with the recipe as a document type and such examples may make it ...

Filed under: DITA : Usage : XML : Examples

DITA For Business Documents? New OASIS Committee Says “Yes!”

Monday, December 03, 2007

Think DITA is just for procedural technical documents? Think again.

A new OASIS DITA sub-committee has been announced whose purpose it is to explore using the popular technical documentation standard known as the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) ...

Filed under: DITA : Usage

The Rockley Blog: A Handy Online Reference for Content Creators and Managers

Monday, September 17, 2007

The content management gurus at The Rockley Blog. Of interest to folks looking for a standard XML schema is the post, DITA: Not Just for Tech Docs, which outlines several reasons why the popular XML ...

Filed under: Blogs & Blogging : DITA : Usage

Have It Your Way: Dynamic Technical Content Delivery Using DITA

Friday, August 31, 2007

If you’re just using XML to publish to pre-defined PDF, HTML and Help formats, you are missing the boat. The real promise of XML is in supporting dynamic, personalized content delivery – and you don’t have to change a thing about how you create content now. No, it’s ...

Filed under: DITA : Usage

Training Program Accelerates Content Creation for Homeland Security Classes Using FrameMaker, DITA

Monday, July 09, 2007

Proper training is crucial when responding to emergency situations. For firefighters, police officers, homeland security agents, and others protecting the public, the Texas Engineering Extension Service (TEEX) offers renowned training and education programs via its ...

Filed under: DITA : Usage : Technical Writing : Authoring Tools : Adobe FrameMaker : XML : Examples

DITA Users Helps Tech Writers Learn To Master Topic-Based Authoring

Monday, June 25, 2007

By Bob Doyle, Special to TheContentWrangler.com

Launched in January 2007, DITA Users is a 200 member organization for technical communicators just getting started with topic-based structured authoring. Members from sixteen countries around the world participate in ...

Filed under: DITA : Usage : Technical Writing : Organizations

If These Walls Could Talk: Unlocking the Interoperability of SCORM, S1000D, and DITA

Wednesday, March 28, 2007

In If These Walls Could Talk, technical communication maven Diane Wieland explores the possibility of using the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) as an antecedent, or precursor, to S1000D in order to create smaller bits of reusable information that can be ...

Filed under: DITA : Usage : E-Learning : S1000D : XML

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