On Jul 6, 2011, at 3:55 PM, Rob Weir wrote: > On Wed, Jul 6, 2011 at 6:11 PM, Dave Fisher <[email protected]> wrote: >> Hi Rob, >> >> On Jul 6, 2011, at 2:10 PM, Rob Weir wrote: >> >>> we've already done the work >>> of converting much of the OOo help to DITA. >> >> Is there a software grant coming? >> > > It is worth considering. But I'm not going to face that corporate red > tape merely on speculation that this might be useful. Let's first > discuss whether the DITA approach seems reasonable. I think it is > important for content authors to be aware that this would be writing > documentation with tags, similar to HTML. Good HTML. But this > structure would give us loads of flexibility for how we structure the > content, combine it is different ways, and publish it. > > You can get a flavor of DITA here: > > http://www.xmlmind.com/tutorials/DITA/index.html
An example is always helpful. I think that DITA is a reasonable form. The topicref hierarchy is a critical necessity. It is likely as good as > Tags are off-putting to some people who just want to work in a WYSIWYG > fashion, so I wanted to check. I like tags. Where is a complete reference? It is difficult to repurpose content if is over-fiddled with in a WYSIWYG fashion. Since we want to repurpose this content in many ways this can make sense. > One possible way of working is to > accept raw content in any reasonable format, ODF, DOC, HTML, yellow > crayon on a napkin, etc., and then have a manual cut & paste process > to get that into DITA initially, and then maintain it that way going > forward. I think that we can strive to go back and forth between DITA and markdown. The Apache CMS is easily extensible with XSL. I can see how to structure a transformation. How does DITA handle style sheets? Is it easy to have different layout templates for different outputs. Is there an ODF to DITA translation? I am currently looking closely at the Apache CMS someone will need to look at the requirements. Where's the best release and what's required? Regards, Dave > >> Regards, >> Dave >>
