Sometimes there’s a flood of information that is DITA-related that happens all at the same time. Today just happens to be one of those days. Here’s a quick run-through of some DITA items of note: Book Release: DITA Metrics 101 Mark Lewis’ new DITA Metrics 101 book was officially launched at the Intelligent Content conferenceRead More
Tag: oXygen
oXygen XML Editor Updated to 14.1
The folks at Syncro Soft have released a minor update to their oXygen XML editor, which has some significant improvements for those using it on their DITA-based content. Here’s a list of the DITA-specific updates, derived from their press release: Refactoring Action to Move or Rename DITA Topics: You can safely rename or move aRead More
The Latest Trends in DITA XML Use in Tech Writing (Part 2)
In the previous article I looked briefly at the numbers from the latest Microsft’s Visio survey of technical writer tools, taking the raw data and showing where the DITA-OT appears in the list of the overall top 20 Technical Writer’s tools (#18, up from #20 in 2011) and where it appears in a listing ofRead More
The Latest Trends in DITA XML Use in Tech Writing (Part 1)
Update January 27, 2012: Have changed the table info so that it is driven from a database – now you can sort and search the content of the tables, as well as seeing the full listing of tools in the survey. It wasn’t that long ago when I looked at the 2011 Survey that WritersUARead More
Where Does DITA XML Fit When it Comes to Tech Writing Tool Use?
Update January 27, 2012: Have changed the table info so that it is driven from a database — now you can sort and search the content of the tables, as well as seeing the full listing of tools in the survey. The folks at self-selection bias are running their annual survey of the type ofRead More
“DITA Implementation in a Geographically Dispersed Team” Presentation
After JoAnn Hackos’ brief introduction, this was the first talk I attended at the DITA Europe 2010 Conference in Vienna. As I am also dealing with issues surrounding working with DITA in what could also be called a “geographically dispersed” team, this seemed like it was right up my alley. The presentation was given byRead More