Mark Fletcher wrote:
>
> Just thought I'd check back in about your DITA support plans. Have you
> made any commitments one way or the other regarding out-of-the-box
> support?
>
Yes. Next release, V3.2, expected in a couple of weeks, should support DITA.
* Not exactly out-of-the-box because, unlike XHTML and Docbook for which
configurations are bundled, you'll have to download and install the
configuration for DITA using XXE's integrated add-on manager (i.e.
"Options|Install Add-ons").
* You'll have the choice between a DTD-based configuration (both
Standard and Professional Editions) and a Schema-based configuration
(Profession Edition only). Unless you intend to specialize DITA,
choosing either configuration does not make a difference.
* We have written our own set of CSS style sheets for DITA, in the
spirit of what has been done in the OpenToolkit (by Don Day?):
- We have a set of CSS style sheets which supports specialization (and
another one, noticeably faster, which does not).
- Everything specific to XXE has been isolated in a "@media
XMLmind-XML-Editor {}" construct. Therefore you can use our CSS style
sheets with web browsers such as Firefox, Opera, etc.
* This first release of a DITA configuration aims to provide the user
with a good authoring environment (on par with XHTML and DocBook). But
this first release will lack two important features:
- transclusion of elements having a conref attribute,
- even more important, processing of DITA maps and DITA topics for
conversion to PDF, HTML, Eclipse Help, etc.
We are committed to implement these missing features in future releases
because we happen to believe in the usefulness of DITA.
