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Introducing
DITA
Steffen Frederiksen DITA Exchange
tekom Danmark DITA Event | 2014-03-11
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What is DITA?
Why DITA?
Why Not?
Where did it come from?
Where is it going?
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Darwin Information Typing Architecture
OASIS sponsored open standard:
An information architecture
An XML standard
New units of information
New content types
DITA LEGO
Topic modules Bricks
Topic Concept Reference Task
DITA map
Model/building set
DITA LEGO
DITA topics Bricks
Topic Concept Reference Task
DITA map
Model/building set
DITA Schemas
Core
Domain/Industry Specializations
Aggregate Level
Core
Information Type Specializations
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map (toc) ditabase
reference concept task
topic
(process) (structure) (principle)
ui software
utilities
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Example
Non-example
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topic
title
prolog
body
related-links
task
title
prolog
taskbody
•prereq
•context
•steps
•result
•example
•postreq
related-links
Specialization
Generalization
Content Reuse
Map reuse
Topic reuse
Conreffing (single element reuse)
DITAVAL filtering
(conditional publishing)
DITA Open Toolkit (sample publishing XSLT
stylesheets and processing algorithms)
<books>
<book category=“reference”>
<author>Nigel Rees</author>
<title>Sayings of the century</title>
<price currency=“USD”>8.95</price>
</book>
<book category=“fiction”>
<author>Evelyn Waugh</author>
<title>Sword of Honour</title>
<price currency=“USD”>12.99</price>
</book>
</books>
Rich Semantics No Formatting
“Whenever you meet a
<title>, put it in Arial, 16
points, bold.”
“Whenever you come across
an <author>, put it in Times
New Roman, 11 points, bold.”
Adds Formatting
To An XML
File
HTML/PDF/HELP/.../...
XSL
XML
Time to market
Regulatory Compliance
Consistency
Quality
Costs Creation
Maintenance
Translation
Publishing
Tools &Services
Content reuse
Single-source publishing
Modularity & team writing
Content typing
Automated processing
It works! (tested by experts)
Sharing content: Between writers
Between departments
Between business partners
Between customers
Sharing tools Free tools
Tools market
Sharing expertise Free expertise
Services market
Huge, demonstrable benefits!
The Wall
Silo-solutions
Big-bang implementations
Top management
DANGER DITA INSIDE!!!
Implementation model 1:
Big bang
Implementation model 2:
Sequence of small successes
Information Mapping
XML/XSLT
Object-Oriented
Development
New units of information: Map
Block
New content types: Procedure
Process
Concept
Structure
Principle
Fact
New principles: Consistency
Relevance
Labeling…etc.
Task-based content analysis Ps and Ks…
Mapping Object Model (MOM)
XML standard
“Object Oriented Information”
More than 200,000 people trained
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INFORMATION MAPPING
DITA
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Opposite of “spaghetti code”
Inheritance (encapsulation and polymorphism)
IBM OASIS
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PROS
Clear benefits
Better tools
Emerging markets
Break down the silos
CONS
Excessive and increasing
complexity
Stays inside “the silo”
HTML 5 for everything?
DITA + SharePoint + Word = Enterprise Scalability
DITA Word topics (hybrid DITA) with equal features
DITA Exchange WCM publishing
DITA Exchange Word Publishing:
Word template + XSLT
TimeLine publishing
Property filtering
XPath filtering
DITA content reuse:
LiveData conreffing
Variables
XPath/Text/Map conreffing
(Content Rule Engine + Map project planning)
