Articles

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

Choosing an XML Schema: DocBook or DITA?

Friday, April 11, 2008

By Richard Hamilton, special to The Content Wrangler (reprinted with permission)

If you follow the latest trends or have been to a conference recently, you may find the idea of choosing an XML schema puzzling. Isn’t the question really, “How should I customize DITA ...

Filed under: DITA : DocBook : Structured Content : Technical Writing : XML

Designing Your Information Architecture for Content Reuse: Five Best Practices

Friday, February 22, 2008

By Amber Swope, Principal Consultant, JustSystems - Reprinted with permission from DM Review

The increasing popularity of Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) means that more users within an organization are looking to repurpose and reuse content across the ...

Filed under: Content Reuse : DITA : Information Architecture

DITA Evolution and the Effect on Content Management Systems

Wednesday, February 20, 2008

By Joe Gelb, Suite Solutions, special to TheContentWrangler

As the Darwin Information Typing Architecutre (DITA) gains wider acceptance as an XML standard for technical documentation, there has been increased activity towards interoperability with other standards, ...

Filed under: Content Management : DITA

Content Managers: Extract the Full Benefits of Structured Authoring

Saturday, February 02, 2008

“You can watch your group’s functions become outsourced to lower-cost craftsmen overseas, or you can reshape the world of technical content manufacturing and turn the technical publication department into your company’s distinctive competitive advantage. To that ...

Filed under: DITA : Technological Innovation

DITA For Business Documents: Where Are All The Software Vendors?

Friday, January 11, 2008

It’s been over a month since the Organization for the Advancement of Structured Information Standards (OASIS) announced it had formed a new subcommittee, DITA for Enterprise Business Documents. We got really excited about this announcement because, if successful, the ...

Filed under: DITA

Creating DITA Content: Who Says You Can’t Use Microsoft Word?

Tuesday, January 01, 2008

By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler

It’s a fact: Microsoft Word is a word processor. Two more facts. Microsoft has not marketed Word as an XML editor. And, they don’t plan to. Why? Because MS Word is not an XML authoring tool, no mater what your IT team—or you—may ...