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Introduction to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based, end-to-end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. This architecture consists of a set of design principles for creating "information-typed" modules at a topic level and for using that content in delivery modes such as online help and product support portals on the Web. At the heart of DITA, representing the generic building block of a topic-oriented information architecture, is an XML document type definition (DTD) called "the topic DTD." The extensible architecture, however, is the defining part of this design for technical information; the topic DTD, or any schema based on it, is just an instantiation of the design principles of the architecture. This document is a roadmap for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture: what it is and how it applies to technical documentation.The Darwin Information Typing Architecture ( DITA ) is an OASIS standard XML data model for authoring and publishing. Many third party tools support authoring, including Adobe FrameMaker , XMetaL , Arbortext, Quark XML Author , Oxygen XML Editor , easyDITA , and SDL Xopus . With the DITA Open Toolkit publishing system, DITA features single source publishing , inheritance , topic-based authoring , and content reuse . DITA content is created as small topic items, rather than long books or chapters. A DITA map contains links to topics, organized in the sequence (which may be hierarchical) in which they are intended to appear in finished documents.
Darwin Information Typing Architecture - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
DITA World - Comprehensive List of DITA Resources
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based, end-to-end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information. This architecture consists of a set of design principles for creating "information-typed" modules at a topic level and for using that content in delivery modes such as online help and product support portals on the Web.
This blog post lists a number of questions asked by a technical communicator about SeSAM, trends in the technical communication inudstry and problems end users are facing when using technical documentation. Below you will find my answers.
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