I met Dawn Stevens many years ago, at my first Content Management Strategies/DITA North America conference. This was at a time when I was trying to learn more about DITA on behalf of the company I was working for. Even back in those early days Dawn was able to answer a lot of the questionsRead More
April 1, 2019 Somewhere in the depths of a content repository thought to reside in a high-volume data center in Punkeydoodles Corners, Ontario, a DITA XML-based spaghetti conref was looped back upon its own content enough times and become sentient. In what has been hailed by some baffled computer scientists as a significant, if confusing,Read More
Other intriguing tidbits are emerging about what to expect in DITA 1.3. There’s very little information that is definite for those who do not have membership in OASIS, but interestingly the development milestone website is publicly accessible, though most of the more detailed information it references can only be found within password-protected sections held withinRead More
Just over a week ago the people at Syncro Soft updated their oXygen XML Editor to version 15.2. What just caught my eye is the fact that there is already a DITA 1.3-specific feature added to the software, in anticipation of its release. Yup, DITA 1.3. Just when you think you’ve got your head aroundRead More
In the last couple of articles in this series we have looked at the continuing growth in the use of DITA across the States, and at what appears to be solid evidence that DITA has become a mature platform within many of those same companies. This third article in the series looks at the typesRead More
It is one thing to produce graphs of the countries where DITA is being used, another thing entirely to look at a map and realize that you happen to live in a city where there are lots of other people are producing DITA-based content. When I originally did my survey of DITA worldwide usage aRead More
If you happen to be in Lyon, France next week, you can hear me give a talk called The Evolution of Information Architecture on the morning of Tuesday, November 20, 2012. It is part of a series of presentations in both French and English being held by the French Ecole Normale Supérieure de Lyon andRead More
