- Embedding Diagrams in DITA topics using PlantUML
PlantUML is a neat library that takes textual descriptions of diagrams and produces visual diagrams from them. Suppose you have a DITA topic that embeds such a textual description of a diagram...
- Embedding Diagrams in DITA Topics Using Mermaid
Mermaid is a neat library that takes textual descriptions of diagrams and produces visual diagrams from them. Suppose you have a DITA topic that embeds such a textual description of a diagram...
- 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...
- Supporting the DITA OT Project as a Commercial Company
Overview This small article is about the relationship between our company, Syncro Soft (which produces the Oxygen XML tools), and the open source DITA Open Toolkit project. As a commercial company...
- Enhancing DITA Publishing With Plugins
The DITA Open Toolkit publishing engine comes with support for predefined output formats such as HTM5, PDF, and Eclipse Help. As the architecture of the publishing engine is plugin-based, over time we...
- Publishing Customizations
An overview of various useful publishing customizations that appear as individual articles on the Oxygen XML Blog. DITA Project Overview DITA Map Metrics Evolution Creating Link Graphs From DITA Maps...
- Presenting DITA Task Steps as Diagrams
By using our free DITA Open Toolkit plugin, you can embed diagram text descriptions (either in PlantUML or Mermaid format) in DITA topics and have them rendered as diagram images in the published...
- Creating Link Graphs From DITA Maps
It may be sometimes useful as an overview to obtain a graphical visualization of how your DITA topics refer to each other. The VisJS Javascript library can be used to construct node network diagrams...
- Similarities Between Technical Doc Writers and Software Engineers
I'm a software engineer, working for Oxygen XML Editor along side my colleagues in developing tools used by technical documentation writers. I also do lots of technical support and sometimes I write...
- Migrating Various Document Formats to DITA
Most companies do not start new DITA-based projects from scratch. They already have content written in various other formats and somehow they need that content converted to DITA. In this blog post, I...
