I don't believe so, but that decision is up to Robert and Stephen. There was some testing done a while back, but the performance of retrieving the files from...
... Still in CVS. The branch tag for the 1.5 release is "B_REL1-5". Cheers, Eliot -- Eliot Kimber Senior Solutions Architect "Bringing Strategy, Content, and...
Hi everyone! Im using XSL FO in order to produce pdf files from dita xml topics. I have managed with the following code, to put the topic number in front of...
I think this confusion is pretty common. As we pushed to get various DITA tools into our budget, one question that came up repeatedly was, "Why do we need a...
... I think you are referring to "CMS" in the sense of a Web-site content management system, which is what a lot of people mean by "CMS". I think Nancy is...
... <snip> ... </snip> Nancy, You're leaning towards a wise approach. I probably fall into a 3rd camp -- what does a CMS have to do with DITA? (:>). CMS FOR...
The short answer is that bookmap was not designed to enable this sort of modularity and lacks the containers you'd like to have in order to do what you want...
Hey all, I've got some cases where I'd like to reuse a bookmap in several places. One case is because all the chapters are the same, but I need different ...
The Mojo team is pleased to announce the first beta release of DITA Open Toolkit Maven Plugin version 1.0. http://mojo.codehaus.org/dita-maven-plugin/ This...
Hi Nancy, We deliver tons of doc in different formats, no CMS, just source control. Requires a bit of discipline. We gave up asking for one a couple of years...
Dear Ted, This happens because Oxygen 11 comes with DITA OT 1.5M19 which requires Saxon 9 as an XSLT processor. The transformation scenario you are using is...
I just upgraded to Oxygen 11 on Eclipse 3.5.1, and my DITA builds are failing. This is what looks to me like the relevant part of the output. Anybody have an...
Wow, you've all given me so much to think about. Thanks very much. And I apologize for raising an issue that was apparently discussed rather recently -...
Hi Tony, Thanks for the reply! I'm sorry, the IDs do start with letter "T". I removed the actual IDs to provide a better looking sample. Any other ideas? ...
Jason, I don't know if this will solve the problem, but your topicref ids must start with a letter. At any rate, correcting those will avoid reference and...
Hi Nancy, Just wanted to add a few thoughts. Like Eliot and Troy, I fall in camp 2. We've been authoring DITA content for about a year without a CMS. We create...
... I think this comment pretty much says it all. When you weigh the size of an organization, with number of documents and how much reuse there is, a CMS may...
Hi Nancy: I applaud your decision to go with DITA at the startup stage. So many startups go with whatever is handy (usually an on-hand desktop publishing...
Personally I think way too many people believe they *must* have a CMS to do any kind of technical documentation. I think you can get by with source control if...
Stilo to present at DITA Europe 2009 MAKING DITA WORK Monday 16 November 2009, 1.30pm - 2.30pm If you're already attending or planning to attend this year's...
Hi, I recently encountered this problem, and after searching on the internet, I couldn't find a solution. Say, I have a container topic (title.xml), a topic...
There was a good bit of discussion about this a week or so ago. In your case, with a relatively small library and modest reuse, you can definitely get by with...
Hi Nancy, To answer the base question, you can do a DITA solution without a CMS. You just spend lots of time manually managing components and you have to...
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