XHTML is not dead. HTML5 has both an HTML and an XML mapping. For all practical purposes, HTML5 is XHTML5 as well. A more loose definition of HTML5 is fine...
Concerning the reports going to managers, from the feedback I've received, it appears to be very much of importance to whomever is managing the doc team. This...
Hi Steve, The recipe schema is no more specialized than the DITA task schema. I think if a writer's manager got cc'd every time the writer added a step in the...
Thanks for the corrections, Steve. WHAT managed to keep the XML mapping secret from me, so I'm pleased that we might actually be able to put some of the new...
I see there is a new post on Don's blog: http://learningbywrote.com/blog/?p=108 I have taken part in a collaborative creating writing excercise myself and it...
Hi Doug, I would think that the work Eliot's doing on DITA 4 Publishers would be more in line with what you're suggesting that a DITA enabled wiki. I don't...
Thought I would say a few words about DITA for Publishers. In the context of fiction, e.g., novels, the main point of D4P is that it demonstrates that DITA...
Eliot, I've been able to provide a convincing aggregated view with the ability to select single topics from that view for editing-in-place. In effect, the view...
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joaknyba
joaknyba@...
Jul 30, 2010 3:03 pm
At least the pricing of Xopus licenses is available on SDL's site (link below). I checked the Xopus prices at the end of June while it was still on their own...
Hi Steve, While this question is really hypothetical, I still think that DITA would be designed as an XML dialect. I think this because the purpose of DITA is...
Has anybody on this list been in contact with the Drupal folks who are working on integrating DITA and Drupal? http://groups.drupal.org/node/87999 Seems like...
... Thanks for the lead--I was not aware of that posting. The idea comes up periodically, but on vote-based systems like Drupal, great ideas don't always get...
I saw this post too, and though I'm intrigued and excited by the idea, I'm confused by their proposed approach: "Since in 90% of the time we'll be working with...
I just finished a web presentation of the DITA Content Collaboration project to the OASIS DITA for the Web Subcommittee, and it went well. So we are off and...
Some documentation projects are plagued by having several terms for the same thing (vacuum pump, backing pump, dry pump, scroll pump, DRIVAC, Leybold etc.)....
... Don: One of the reasons I believe these things have the 'ho-hum enthusiasm' ... I think you need to understand and appreciate both sides of the equation. ...
Yes, more information should be soon forthcoming here. I'm meeting with Kristof to help facilitate the joining of these formerly separate discussions. It is...
The first meeting of the Los Angeles DITA Interest Group (LADIG) is scheduled for Monday, November 15 at 7:00 pm at Truxton's Bistro in Los Angeles (near LAX)....
To the Los Angelest DITA Interest Group: As you launch your new group, you might like to know that other DITA users groups exist in Austin, TX; Boston, MA; and...
I'm the architect of the DITA-Drupal integration project. A lot has happened since we first started working on a concept for this and we've dropped the XHTML...
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Don Day (LbW)
donday@...
Dec 1, 2010 5:14 pm
Here is the formal announcement of the approval of DITA 1.2 as an OASIS Specification. The OASIS press release should be early next week, as participating...
For readers who are not also subscribed to dita-users, this news should be of interest: DITA 1.2 is now an OASIS standard! The appended press release has...
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Mark Giffin
mark@...
Apr 8, 2011 3:44 pm
The March meeting of the Los Angeles DITA Interest Group (LADIG) is scheduled for Wednesday, March 2 at 7:00 pm at Home Restaurant in the Los Feliz area (near...
Don, we've already been in touch about Codex, but I thought I'd respond (albeit long after your post) for the benefit of the group members. Codex is a...
Cross-posted to dita-users and framemaker-dita Hi Folks, I have been authoring DITA content in FrameMaker. I now need to upload some of my content to a...
