DITA Tools and Utilities

SuiteHelp - Trial

The SuiteHelp Trial is a DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT) plugin which enables you to transform your DITA content to cross-browser and cross-platform webhelp. SuiteHelp output is built on modern web standards, utilizing HTML5, CSS3 and Ajax, avoiding deprecated techniques such as frames. By utilizing recent web APIs, it provides a first-class user experience for modern browsers. By using graceful degredation, SuiteHelp ensures full support for older web browsers.
SuiteHelp works on all commonly used web browsers including Internet Explorer (7+), Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and Safari.

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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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DITA Packager Utility

This utility packages all files referenced in a ditamap (including all conrefs in any file) and packages them into a zip 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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