Teresa's DocBook vs. DITA article

posted 08:34PM May 03, 2008 with tags day dita docbook by Lars Trieloff

Scott Hudson points to DocBook versus DITA: Will the Real Standard Please Stand Up? (slides here at dev.day.com) wriiten by my colleague Teresa Mulvihill. Scott points out that DocBook can be used for single-sourcing out of the box, thanks to support for XInclude and I would like to add that we at Day are currently in the process of translating our documentation to DocBook (not DITA) and first results are looking very promising. We are using Wilfried Springer's DocBook Maven Plugin as the driver of the processing toolchain, which is powerful, because we can integrate documentation development tightly with software development, sharing the same repository, using the same branches and tags and using the same build process.

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XMLmind XML Editor 3.2.0

posted 10:03AM Apr 04, 2006 with tags css dita java wysiwyg xml by Lars Trieloff

A new release of the CSS-based, customizable WYSIWYG-XML-Editor XXE is out. The new release has following highlights:
  • A configuration for DITA can be downloaded and installed using Options|Install Add-ons. More info. in this document.
  • XXE has a more powerful table editor allowing to insert, copy, cut, paste, delete columns and rows, and allowing to increment or decrement the number of columns and the number of rows spanned by a cell.
  • It is now possible to bind a command to the drag action as well as to the drop action. For example, using this new facility, it is possible to drag a DITA topic and drop it in a DITA map in order to create the corresponding topicref.
  • Many enhancements are related to the CSS support in XXE.

A feature I like most about the new version is the support for Java 6 and its new GTK-Look-and-Feel.

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