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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

Email

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)

Thank you!

Steffen Frederiksen srf@ditaexchange.com www.ditaexchange.com