... My apologies for wasting anyone's time. I must have downloaded the obsolete samples and presentation from the site rather than the current link. The...
Hi everyone, I'm fairly new to DITA but so far it seems to be just what we need, and I'd like to be able to contribute in some small way. I don't know if this...
... You are not out of step at all, Anton. DITA's future is open standards and open source. There is a very active standards community for the DITA language...
Within the dita toolkit, a demo dtd is included called bookmap and bkinfo. Does anyone has further info to those e.g. something like a Language Reference Guide...
Where is DITA headed as a standard? Read below to find out! I would like to personally urge you to review this draft of the DITA specification. Please use the...
Hello, Is there any information about the estimated release date and new developments in the next DITA toolkit? I'm especially interested in the development of...
... Chris, this information had been originally posted in the older developerWorks newsgroup for DITA, but this newsgroup gets pruned periodically and that...
Does anyone has used the software StyleVision2005 from Altova (XMLSpy). I tried to design a stylesheet with it, but he recognizes the elements only but not the...
Hi Chris, I have tried to play with Stylevision trying to design a stylesheet with it, and you are right Stylevision recognizes elements. This means that it is...
Hi Tonny I figured out, that after selecting one of the DITA DTDs within stylevision you have to assign a working xml file which is based on that DTD. After...
One further point, Altova Stylevision 2005 deliveres the DITA DTDs within its toolset. However, the DTD version is from July 2004. I am not sure but I...
Hello all, I'm a newbie to DITA and was hoping for some "for dummies" help. Some background: I am an IT professional who works for a fortune 200 company. The...
Rich, I have included some links that you might want to check out that I have been collecting. I am not sure which ones you have looked at yet, but I think...
Hi A good ressource you can go is: http://xml.coverpages.org/dita.html You will find there a lot of further infos and some powerpoint presentations with...
... You've come to the right "AA" meeting! We're here to support you. ... The answer probably depends on what you want to understand through your evaluation: ...
... discussed ... Let's see if this will post decently: DITA authoring/production framework One of the big questions for assessing DITA is "What does it take...
In a message dated 3/4/2005 11:35:37 AM Mountain Standard Time, dond@... writes: One of the big questions for assessing DITA is "What does it take to ...
... reuse. But ... form of the ... finer than ... not ... We also need more attributes -- at least eight and perhaps more -- for conditioning on-line help at...
I don't understand the issue here. 1. Authoring interface: Most XML editors allow you to customize the interface, so you could create a dialog or whatever...
Hi, Gershon and Hedley: Several good points here: * The base DITA types that are shared by all adopters shouldn't be a kitchen sink that defines every...
... I'd mention that the style portions of this proposal are a bit archaic -- the OASIS committee has had some discussion about other approaches to styling,...
Hi All Can anyone tell us if there may be some future plans for attribute specialisation? This is a very important requirement for me and I would rather wait...
Melanie, I understand the pressures on you. If you've been discouraged by the lack of conditional processing in the previous DITA toolkit offerings and having...
Hi Don Thanks for that "light at the end of the tunnel" :) I might just pop along to Sourceforge and see if there's anything interesting ;-) -Melanie...
... There were two insightful responses to that original posting that I have located and again post here for what they are worth: ... What I gathered from...
Hi Melanie. I would like to put in a plug here for the DITA 1.0 standardization effort. The draft architectural specification has a whole section on the limits...
Authoring More Effectively with DITA Wednesday, March 23, 2005 11:00 AM - 12:00 PM Eastern (16:00 - 17:00 PM GMT) Authoring in topics rather than books means...
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Hi Chris You're a genius! This may very well be the future-proof solution I've been looking for. The only problem I can see is that you would have to manually...
