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DITA XML.org is the official community gathering place and information resource for the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) OASIS Standard. This site is hosted by OASIS, the not-for-profit consortium that advances open standards for the global information society.

Use DITA XML.org to:

 

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Contribute content

DITA XML.org is a community-driven site and encourages content contributions from readers.

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Collaboration

Wiki Knowledgebase pages can be directly edited by others.

Each News, Events, Products, Services, Resources, Testimonials, Forums, and Blog page can only be edited by its author; others are invited to provide feedback using the 'Add new comment' link at the bottom of the page.

See also:

- XML.org Editorial Guidelines
- Styleguide

 

Add or edit a Wiki page

The community is encouraged to edit and add to the collaborative Wiki Knowledgebase on topics related to using and understanding DITA.

Register for the site, then log in to:

  • Edit an existing Wiki page
    • Select the 'Edit' tab on the page you wish to change.
  • Suggest a new Wiki page 
    • Select the 'Edit' tab on the Wiki outline or other page.
    • In the 'Body' field, insert your new page title surrounded by double brackets.
    • Select the 'Submit' button. Your new link will now appear in red.
    • At any time, you (or someone else) may click on the red link and create the page.
  • Add a Wiki page
    Follow the 'Suggest a new Wiki page' steps above or
    • Go directly to the Wiki page submission form.
    • Link to your new page from another page using the link icon on the 'Edit' view.
  • Tag a page
    • Select the 'Edit' tab on the page you wish to tag.
    • Insert your tag(s) in the 'Tag' field.

When you create a Wiki page, all visitors to the site will be able to view your contribution, and all registered users will be able to edit it and add tags and links. If you don't want your writing to be edited, consider placing it in another section on this site. See Contribute content for more options.

Why add tags

Tags permit readers to find pages that address a particular subject. The tag cloud enables readers to navigate to pages on subjects of interest and lets authors review tags others are using. Tags can contain multiple words and should begin with a capital letter. See our tutorial on adding subject tags.

 

How to share user experiences on this site

DITA users are encouraged to share their experiences with others on this site in a variety of ways:

  • Describe your specific experience using a product or service provider by selecting the 'Add new comment' link at the bottom of the vendor's listing in the DITA Products or Services directory.
  • Add your organization's name to the Deployments page in the Wiki Knowledgebase.

Sponsors

Funding for DITA XML.org is provided by these OASIS members:

Adobe
Adobe Systems Incorporated (NASDAQ: ADBE) revolutionizes how the world engages with ideas and information. For more than two decades, the company's award-winning technologies and software (e.g. Adobe FrameMaker) have redefined business, entertainment, and personal communications by setting new standards for producing and delivering content that engages people anywhere at anytime. Now that Adobe and Macromedia are one company, Adobe is better positioned than ever to push the boundaries of the digital universe. Adobe is driving innovation with powerful, compelling software solutions that meet the needs of customers and markets ranging from technical publishers, designers and filmmakers, to enterprises and developers.

 

Comtech

Since 1978, Comtech has helped clients worldwide develop effective information, reduce life cycle costs, improve processes and productivity, and plan and implement content-management solutions. Comtech's services include working with companies on pre-implementation content management strategies, DITA implementation, structured writing, benchmarking, user studies, document analysis, stylesheet development, and much more.

 

JustSystems
JustSystems Corporation provides XML content creation and collaboration solutions, advancing the goals of globally-focused, customer-driven organizations. JustSystems' XMetaL family of software and services enables companies to create, share, reuse, and deliver content more quickly and cost-effectively, across all customer channels, from sales, marketing, and customer service, to training and technical support.

 

PTC
PTC (Nasdaq: PMTC) provides product lifecycle management (PLM), content management and dynamic publishing solutions to more than 40,000 companies worldwide. PTC solutions for dynamic publishing enable companies to automate the assembly and publishing of product or service information in multiple languages and formats. These solutions are made up of the Arbortext product family and used by 30% of Fortune 500 companies in the manufacturing, life sciences, publishing, government, insurance and financial services industries.

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Editorial board

Creation and oversight of content for this site is provided by the DITA XML.org Focus Area Editorial Board. Participation in this group is open to all members of OASIS. For information on joining the Board, contact communications@oasis-open.org.

Editorial Board communications are publicly archived. Submit comments or questions on the site through the Feedback Forum.

Editorial Board Members

 

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Deb Boczulak is the Product Manager for XyEnterprise’s Content Management product line, including Contenta and Contenta DITA. Ms. Boczulak joined XyEnterprise in 2000, bringing a wealth of experience in technical support, product introductions, upgrades and software implementations. Prior to XyEnterprise, she held several supervisory and management positions in Technical Support at SunGard Financial Systems.

Robin Cover is Editor of the Cover Pages web site and XML.org Daily Newslink. References for DITA are included within the Cover Pages. He also advises the OASIS Technical Services Department on web architecture issues.

Don Day is Chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, chair of IBM's DITA Architect's board, and has represented IBM on the W3C XSL and CSS Working Groups. See Don's Daylights blog and his Resources page for the Open Toolkit.

Bob DoyleBob Doyle is CEO of skyBuilders.com, the organizer of the Boston DITA Users Group, and developer of the international DITA Users membership organization, providing web-based tools for writers getting started with DITA. He publishes the DITA specifications as an Eclipse Help DITA Infocenter and edits a DITA Newsletter. Bob's other DITA support sites include DITA Blog, DITA News, DITA Tutor, and DITA Wiki. He writes regularly on structured publishing at EContent Magazine. He has a personal blog and a blog on DITA.XML.org.

Kristen James Eberlein is an information architect and an individual member of OASIS and the DITA Technical Committee. Her interests include DITA training and best practices, build automation, and strategies for helping writers make the transition from book to topic-based writing. She has presented at several conferences on such topics as DITA short descriptions, IBM Task Modeler, and prototyping online information.

Bruce Esrig is an Information Architect and Interaction Designer. He contributed specification language during the release of DITA 1.0 and built consensus on several issues during the development of DITA 1.1. He contributed a taxonomy to seed the tagging mechanism on dita.xml.org.

Kay (Ethier) Whatley is Senior Trainer and Consultant for Bright Path Solutions. Her teaching and consulting experience includes XML and related technologies, DITA, structured authoring, content management, FrameMaker, and Structured FrameMaker. She has authored several books on publishing technologies (XML Weekend Crash Course, XML and FrameMaker, Advanced FrameMaker, XML Problem-Design-Solution), as well as a Korean martial arts book.

JoAnn Hackos is co-chair of the OASIS DITA Editorial and founding member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. She is president of Comtech Services, Inc. and executive director of The Center for Information-Development Management. She has been instrumental in promoting DITA with the information-development community worldwide.

 

Scott Prentice is the President of Leximation, Inc., and focuses on providing tools and solutions for print and online publishing.

Michael Priestley is co-editor of the DITA Specification, and IBM's representative on the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. He is one of DITA's original architects at IBM, and is an experienced information architect and XML architect . He is currently coordinating taxonomy initiatives across several IBM communities. You can read his blog at http://dita.xml.org/blog/25

Amber Swope is a Principal Consultant for JustSystems in the Content Lifecycle Solutions practice. Amber has led and supported DITA migration and implementation for projects at IBM. She has presented at industry conferences and published articles on successfully implementing DITA.

Su-Laine Yeo is an Interaction Design Specialist at JustSystems, where she is responsible for analyzing customer requirements and continually improving the usability of the XMetaL product family. She has delivered numerous conference presentations, articles, and courses on DITA.

 

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Naming your blog

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To name your blog, simply log in, click on your userid in the upper right corner, select the "Edit" tab, and complete the "Blog title" field at the bottom of the page.

Each post you make to your blog will be published under its own title and under your blog name.

Tags

Optionally, you may associate each of your blog posts with one or more subject tags. Tags can contain multiple words and should begin with a capital letter. See our tutorial on adding subject tags.

Blogs on other sites

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See also:

 - DITA XML.org Blog submission form
 - DITA XML.org bloggers (alphabetical list of bloggers on this site by name)
 - DITA XML.org blog posts (chronological list of all blog posts created on this site)
 -  Blogroll