DITA: From the Perspective of Someone Actually Using It. A Podcast | I'd Rathe... - The Diigo Meta page

• 04 Jun 08
  

  jetjasper

  DITA

  • If you’re unfamiliar with DITA, it’s a way of tagging your content so that  the DITA Open Toolkit can transform it into a number of outputs, such as HTML  and PDF. The tags conform to a specific XML architecture, and your information  is chunked into small topics that can be arranged in different tables of  contents (”maps”).

  • DITA is quickly becoming the XML standard for technical writers. New XML  editing tools are sprouting up that allow you to more easily write DITA content  without dealing with code. But Marlene says that she was on a budget; they opted  for a more basic XML editor and actually write all their documentation in native  XML. Rather than cumbersome, she says it’s quite easy and only takes about a  week before the writers become accustomed to it. The XSLT transforms posed more  difficulties, she says, but nothing insurmountable.

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