Using DITA

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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Specialize, but not right away?

Read our <soapbox> feature, "Specialize, but not right away?" then share your perspective with author, Bruce Esrig, and others by posting to this forum. Also cast your vote in our Adoption poll.

Running DITA concurrently with a document metadata system

I'm looking at how we develop DITA to handle the content of our research reports, which will need some topic specializations, so it's not a rush job.  In the meantime my colleague, our knowledge manager, is developing a document metadata architecture that will make our legacy documents searchable.

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Testing DITA: BUILD FAILED problem

Hi everyone,

I originally posted this as a reply to another post, but I doubt anyone would find it there, so I'm setting up this new one, hoping to get a solution and, hopefully, providing it to others who would run into the same issue.

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Using DITA for research reports

I work within a research and development department and we are looking at DITA/XML for reusing our information.  However, I don't feel that 'concept, task, and reference' are wide enough in scope to accomodate sections of information that regularly appear in all research reports (not just ours), such as: method, methodology, results, findings, recommendations, and others.

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