¤ DITA Tools and Utilities

Ditaval File Generation Utility

This utility parses all the DITA files referenced in a ditamap file (including all conrefs in any file) and gives a list of all conditional attribute values found in product, platform, audience and otherprops. Using this list, you can check that all the values are valid and that there are no mistaken values. You can then choose which attributes to include and exclude, and automatically generate a ditaval file.

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¤ Papers and Presentations

DITA and Topic Maps: Bringing the Pieces Together

Presented: April 3, 2008 at Topic Maps 2008 Conference, Oslo, Norway

This presentation describes how combining DITA with Topic Maps provides significant advantages and helps capitalize on the investment of implementing a topic-oriented approach to content development and management.

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Optimizing Your Content for Reuse and Conditional Publishing

Presented: June 4, 2007 at STC, Herzylia, Israel

Whether you create structured content such as DITA or unstructured documentation using FrameMaker or Word, the methods to optimize reuse and achieve conditional publishing are the same.

Content reuse and conditional publishing can be attained at several levels. Whether a topic-oriented approach is implemented using a structured format such as DITA, or even unstructured FrameMaker or MS Word, the basic concepts and methods for achieving the results are the same. This presentation discusses different levels of content reuse, basic methods for optimizing content for reuse and conditional publishing, and outlines a process for moving towards a topic-oriented framework.

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Optimizing Your Content Development Using Topic Maps

Presented: February, 2007 at DITA 2007 West Conference, San Jose, California

Combining DITA with Topic Maps (XTM) provides significant advantages to help capitalize on the investment of implementing a topic-oriented approach to content development and management.

Traditionally, content development has been dictated by documentation deliverables. This presentation introduces a methodology which combines DITA with the Topic Map (XTM) standard to extend the topic oriented approach to content development and to optimize the processes for deciding what content needs to be created. This topic is crucial for truly reaping the benefits of moving to DITA or any other topic-oriented architecture and generating your return on investment, especially for large documentation sets.

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¤ Related Sites

The Content Wrangler: Interesting articles, listing of news and events

DITA XML.org: DITA Online Community

DITA Infocenter: Searchable knowledgebase of the DITA specification. Check out also DITA Wiki and DITA Blog

DITAMAP.COM: Gathering place for information about DITA XML

DITA News: Listing of news, events, resources and tools

DITA Users: Online tool for authoring and publishing using DITA

DITA World: Comprehensive List of DITA Resources