Here’s something I think needs to be more widely known: sample DITA files mimicking a professional manual set for a fictitious product called Thunderbird. I’ve been using this example code for a couple of years now in demos and for presentations, and there’s at least one person in every audience I show this to whoRead More
Not too long ago the second edition of the popular DITA for Print was published by XML Press. While she is a colleague of mine at IXIASOFT, she lives and works in the States and we don’t get the opportunity to meet and talk as much as I would like. Luckily, we had the opportunityRead More
My work for IXIASOFT includes being a company liaison for OASIS, the open standards body that produces the DITA specification. One of the groups I actively work with there is the DITA Adoption Committee, that I now chair, accompanied by Stan Doherty as secretary. Its goals are to help inform the DITA community on bestRead More
My main source for finding new companies to add to my list of companies that use DITA on the DITAWriter website is LinkedIn. In order to answer the question: “where are DITA users located across the world?”, for the past few years I have done a broad search asking how many individuals claimed “DITA XML”Read More
