Using DITA

Conditional Inclusion

Hello All,

I am trying to migrate from a "home grown" SGML system which filters based on conditional inclusion. On output, the processor sees a list of product codes. It includes an element if the element has a 'product' attribute with an explicit value that includes at least one of those codes and omits it if the value includes none of those codes.

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Anyone used In.vision Xpress Author / DITA Studio?

Hi all,

I'm investigating a switch to DITA for my company, and so far the tool that looks best to me is In.vision's Xpress Author and DITA Toolkit.  Has anyone worked with this tool?  If so, what do you think of it?

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Conference X-Pubs 2007

Europe's largest XML Conference X-Pubs (http://www.x-pubs.com) is back a look. Covers XML /DITA / CMS. 2006 was brilliant.

End-users from Bombardier, Schlumberger, BMJ, and the Irish Governement are presenting their stories, AND Michael Priesly (IBM), Steve Manning (Rockley Group), and other experts from IBM, Adobe, PTC Arbortest, XyEntreprise, Mekon, ect.

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Generating into PowerPoint

Has anyone tried use the ToolKit to generate into PowerPoint?

Tutorial: Specializing the props= attribute

I have posted a tutorial on how to do DITA 1.1 attribute specialization of the props= attribute. It is here:

http://drmacros-xml-rants.blogspot.com/2007/03/tutorial-specializing-dit...

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