- DITA Perspectives
DITA is not defined as a flat list of elements, but each element is either a base element or it derives as a specialized version of another element. This hierarchy should actually decrease the...
- DITA 1.3 Branch Filtering - Next Generation of Reuse
In this blog post, I'm going to give you a small example of how branch filtering can benefit two cases of reuse, which could not be done previously. You can read more about branch filtering in the...
- Resources for learning DITA with Oxygen
From time to time we get requests from beginners or from users migrating from other tools who want to start using Oxygen with DITA and they need to know a set of useful resources. Resources for...
- DITA Linking Strategies
This small tutorial is based on the "DITA Linking Strategies" presentations I made for the DITA Europe 2016 and DITA North America 2017 conferences. It's a general overview about DITA linking...
- DITA XML Editing, Collaboration and Publishing Overview
Oxygen XML provides a wide range of features for editing, reusing, profiling, reviewing, and publishing DITA XML content. We strive to offer a complete editing, collaboration package which is still flexible enough to be customized for a variety of use cases...
- DITA Map Validate and Check for Completeness Overview
The Validate and Check For Completeness is an action available on the DITA Maps Manager view toolbar and it can be used to perform thorough checks on the entire DITA Map structure and set of...
- DITA 1.3 Key Scopes - Next Generation of Reuse
In this blog post I'm going to give you a small example of how key scopes can benefit simple cases of reuse which could not be done previously. Let's say you have a simple DITA task in which you have...
- DITA 2.0 Specification Support Cheat Sheet
You can use the Convert DITA 1.3 topics and maps to the DITA 2.0 standard XML refactoring action bundled with Oxygen 24 (or later) to convert DITA 1.3 content to the DITA 2.0 standard. The same XML...
- Reuse with Branch Filtering
With branch filtering you can combine two profiles of the same DITA Map in a larger publication. Creating a Phones Catalogues publication If you already have a DITA Map from which you can obtain...
- DITA 1.3 Contributions to Reuse
DITA 1.3 takes content reuse to an entire new level allowing you to: Reuse topic with variable content depending on context (keyscopes). Reuse the same content profiled in various ways in the same...