Erik; I completely agree with the approach of DITA, and very much appreciate the time you took to provide examples. I took a section of your post to illustrate...
Thanks Don for this very extensive reply ! You're a great help to all of us. I assume this trick only works if you go through FO to publish to PDF. In our case...
I'd like to ask people who are successfully using DITA exactly how their deployments have ended up looking. In particular, have people opted for the...
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OASIS has now made a formal announcement about the recent approval of OASIS DITA 1.0 as an OASIS Standard. Here is one newswire pick-up on the announcement: ...
... I'm developing a database-driven publishing system for museums and institutes (various proprietary XML formats plus DocBook, TEI, ev. DITA etc.) and found...
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... I am ... Cocoon ... corpus ... integrations? ... Klaus, or others who might know, could you explain the relative design points and merits between this...
eXist is a native XML database that runs in a servlet container and supports APIs for querying/posting documents remotely (read over the Web), while XM is a...
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... Are there here some experience feed-back on this idea of reuse over some 10000 topics and validity ? For example, how is it possible to help the...
Klaus, Are you doing the publishing in-line with Cocoon? Also, how (if at all) are you integrating with an XML editor? ... From: dita-users@yahoogroups.com...
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... Cocoon is only an abstraction layer, used for re-directions, for calling images with various resolutions, for aggregations like "call this document and all...
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... <Constantine.Hondros@n...> wrote: ... at IBM - ... scales up? IBM's DITA users represent many sites and differing support requirements. In general, for...
DITA Users Group ======================== Tri-XML's new DITA user group meets on June 30th in the Research Triangle Park, NC area. This DITA luncheon features...
... elements are ... highest-level ... cannot ... attributes of ... that the ... I encountered exactly the same problem during my initial installation and...
... publication ... You write common content for the Java/Eclipse and C#/VStudio combinations and wrap this content in an element, e.g. <p>, <ph> or whatever....
... Actually, the intention of the otherprops attribute is as a garbage bin into which you shovel all the condition values that don't fit conveniently into...
With a topic-based approach, is anybody working on GUI-based tools with characteristics like RoboHelp or AuthorIT to work with multiple topics and assemble...
... OK, your idea is to use some kind of metadata and then to filter using metadata values. I'm quite sure that metadata is not enough just because you often...
... difficult ... perhap's ... purpose on a ... There already exists (unless you are writing a novel) a SET of topics for any output: it's called the PRODUCT....
I'm trying to get my head around the DITA toolkit's two-pass processing, the intermediate topicmerge file, and the whole conditional processing scenario. Does...
Rereading the messages of the list I have something that probably can help, though after six months already you have the solution. Nonetheless(Though) if...
... First, the DITA model of conditional attributes (look up %select-attrs; in the OASIS DITA Language Reference Committee Draft 01) uses the boolean model...
... Is this a carefully crafted answer to comply with IBM policy or the neutrality that befits the chairman of an OASIS technical committee on which various ...
I have a feeling I'm going to feel mighty small when I hear the answer to this, but I have to ask anyway because I'm stumped (and lack the skills to dig into...
Not a silly question at all, Mike. The issue is sort of subtle. Most XML files uses an extension of .xml to indicate their syntax, much as with other files...
More specifics on using the new parameter-building tool in dita-ot 1.0.2: 1. Change into the root directory of your current DITA-OT 2. Enter the command after...
... Alan, there is a good description of conditional processing on pages 24-25 of the OASIS DITA Architectural Specification. Specs are not quite the same as...
Thanks, Don... I appreciate the reply, and I'll look into Erik's tutorial for more information. The only follow-up question I have is what to do outside of...
... Purraps a stupid question, but ... What exactly does "breaking DITA" mean ? Do you mean that if more selection attributes are provided, then the...
The default coded into the transforms would have to be changed, Mike. For now, setting a parameter in Ant will pass your preferred value into the transforms....
