On 09/20/2012 04:51 AM, [email protected] wrote: > > My organization is interested in using the DITAC tool to customize our > XML documentation. Before we get too far ahead of ourselves, I would > like to know how easily the DITAC tool integrates with available CMSs. > We have not yet found a CMS and would like to know the limitations of > both your tool and the CMS before making any decisions.
The limitations of ditac are all documented here: XMLmind DITA Converter Manual, Appendix B. Limitations and implementation specificities http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/limitations.html > > Compared to the OT, how easily does the DITAC tool integrate? > Please understand that it's impossible to answer your question. It's the CMS vendor who is supposed to be able to answer it, not us, the implementor of ditac. I can just say this: * Ditac has been designed to be easily embedded in Java applications (of any kind: desktop or served-based). Note that I'm writing "embedded", and not "integrated". You embed a software component. You integrate a tool. * There are two ways to embedded ditac in Java applications. How to do this is documented here: XMLmind DITA Converter Manual, Part III. Embedding XMLmind DITA Converter in a Java™ application http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/_distrib/doc/manual/manual-7.html#I_o6ydme_ * We have of course successfully embedded ditac in our own commercial products, namely: - XMLmind XML Editor -- http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/what_is_xxe.html - XMLmind XSL Utility -- http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/xsl_utility.html - XMLmind XSL Server -- http://www.xmlmind.com/foconverter/xsl_server.html We have few contacts with CMS vendors. To our knowledge: - Calenco seems to have integrated ditac (not 100% sure though). See http://www.neodoc.biz/en/calenco/index.html - The developers of EasyDITA have seriously considered integrating ditac. I don't know the current status of this project. See http://easydita.com/ - The few other CMS vendors we know (SiberLogic -- http://www.siberlogic.com/, BlueStream XDocs -- http://www.bluestream.com/products/content/bluestream-xdocs/) seem to be satisfied with the DITA Open Toolkit (OT), as [a] OT is the reference implementation of DITA, [b] OT is well-known by DITA consultants. -- XMLmind DITA Converter Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/ditac-support
