Articles

Let’s Get Real: The Secret To Making The Case For DITA Adoption To The Rest Of The World

Sunday, June 08, 2008

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler

The Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) is seeking participants to help move the adoption of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) forward, pushing the value proposition of DITA ...

Filed under: DITA : Adoption : Usage : Structured Content : XML : Examples

DITA Maturity Model Community: Call for Your Participation

Tuesday, May 20, 2008

Enterprises looking to fast track their content strategy and minimize the risks of a “big-bang” initiative are choosing DITA--one of the most popular information models to suit today’s content–rich, multi-channel environment. But how do you know where to begin? How do ...

Filed under: DITA : Usage : XML : Examples

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

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

Pipes: Leveraging The XML Publish Subscribe Model

Tuesday, April 24, 2007

In the past few years, there’s been a lot of chatter about the power of XML and how it will change the way we create, manage, and deliver information. There’s no doubt that this is indeed happening. The rise of structured authoring, the increasing importance of ...

Filed under: Content Reuse : RSS : Web 2.0 : XML : Examples

Why XForms? An Apologia and Exegesis

Friday, November 03, 2006

In Why XForms? An Apologia and Exegesis, Elliotte Rusty Harold, IBM developerWorks explores some of the many problems XForms are intended to solve, including internationalization, accessibility, and device independence. As with XML, XForms is designed to separate ...

Filed under: Experience Design : XML : Examples

XForms - The Next Generation of Web Forms

Thursday, August 28, 2003

Forms are highly structured information containers. They’re used by just about everyone for one thing or another. Unfortunately, neither paper-based nor HTML-forms work as well as they should. Both types lack connectivity with the other applications that utilize form ...

Filed under: XML : Examples

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