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Author-it and converting UTF-16 to UTF-8

{ Posted on Dec 04 2007 by annegentle }

Tags : author-it, AuthorIT, DITA, identity template, software, techpubs, tools, UTF, UTF-16, UTF-8, writing, XML, XSLT
Categories : tools

In trying to modify multiple Author-it topics (okay, 5,119 topics) with variable assignments, I have had to work with the XML output that Author-it exports. To export to XML, you select a topic or multi-select topics, then right-click on the selection ...Read More »

DITA round up

{ Posted on Aug 09 2007 by annegentle }

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Tags : BMC, BMC Software, CSS, DITA, DITA builds, DITA Open Toolkit, DITA specializations, DITA wiki, JoAnn Hackos, wiki, XML, XSLT
Categories : DITA

Just doing a little data mining of the posts I've written about DITA in the last few years. I think that there's a gap for DITA users who are writers or content creators and not coders. I'd like to say ...Read More »

Frame 8 is here: conversion or migration from unstructured FrameMaker to DITA

{ Posted on Jul 24 2007 by annegentle }

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Tags : DITA, DTD, EDD, Framemaker, structured FrameMaker, tags, technical writing, techpubs, topics, unstructured FrameMaker, XML, XSLT
Categories : DITA

FrameMaker 8 was released yesterday, with DITA possibility built in, but you will need to do your homework to determine the best path to migrate legacy content from unstructured Frame to DITA. Questions such as Unstructured to DITA - Concise ...Read More »

A web-form based DITA editor

{ Posted on Jul 14 2006 by annegentle }

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Tags : blog editor, CSS, DITA, DITA Storm, DITA subset, DITA web editor, DITA wiki, DOM, help editor, Javascript, microformats, nintendo, structured blogging, subsetting DITA, wiki, XML, XSLT
Categories : talk.bmc

Could this be the perfect storm for a DITA wiki? Written with just HTML, Javascript, DOM, and CSS, as far as I can tell, DITA Storm is a product that enables web-form-based DITA topic authoring and display. ...Read More »

Notes from the Central Texas DITA User Group meeting

{ Posted on Apr 21 2006 by annegentle }

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Tags : AJAX, DITA, information design, structured authoring, technical writing, topic authoring, XML, XSLT
Categories : talk.bmc

Two speakers shared their takeaways from DITA 2006 and CMS 2006 I attended the central Texas DITA users group meeting last night, and wanted to write up some notes. We had two speakers share their thoughts after ...Read More »