Dita language reference overview the design of the darwin information typing architecture dita is based on deriving multiple information types, or infotypes, from a common, generic topic. The styletotag map enables an entirely or almostentirely configurationdriven transformation of styled word documents into dita based xml, specialized or not. It allows me to create a framemaker book from a dita map or bookmap and then do whatever i can do with any framemaker book, including create a pdf. The docx2dita transform is driven by a configuration file, the styletotag map. Hi all, in the dita fmx plugin developed by leximation, theres a feature called generate book from map.
Define the scope of the transformationa file, all files in a folder, dita map, or all children of a book. A bookmap is a special kind of dita map that defines the major structures and setup information for producing maps of information as a book. The dita package includes xslt stylesheets that enable you, with a single command, to transform all the documents referenced by a map to html and build a table of contents that links to all of them. If the topic is not an and the navtitle attribute is not set directly on the topic, then the title. The dita map and map group domain elements organize topics into hierarchies, groups, and relationships. A wellorganized structure can go a long way in helping your reader find and understand information. Rightclick the dita map title in the dita maps manager. Dec 01, 2010 the element is a map specialization used to describe the relationships among a set of dita topics intended to be configured as a traditional book.
If you follow the one topic per xml file rule, a single topic map map or depending on the complexity of the contents is all you need. The tool suitable for your documentation depends on your requirements and that of your organization. Publish book in responsive html5 from dita map how to publish my book in responsive html5 from a dita map document with framemaker. The advent of the extensible markup language xml and rapid adoption of topicbased content standards like dita have forced us to separate content from format and end our addiction to desktop publishing. After a couple of hours deepdive im pretty sure that the preprocessing behaviour of populating the elements inside the preprocessed dita maps during mappull has changed. Editing dita maps you can make changes to a dita map that you have created by checking the map out from the repository, making your changes, and then checking the map back into the repository. By implementing dita, organizations can gain more value from their technical documentation than ever before. More formally, dita is an open standard that describes the architecture for creating and managing information that separates the content from the formatting, allows for a more streamlined content creation process, and. In the doctype declaration change dita map to dita bookmap and map. The generated book contains these converted framemaker documents in the same hierarchical structure as the dita map.
In the dita maps manager, click the apply transformation scenarios button. Refer to this file by the following public identifier or an appropriate system identifier public oasisdtd dita bookmapen delivered as file bookmap. Xmlmind dita converter, an alternative to using the dita open toolkit. Open the book from the dita map document, dita map example. Bookmaps are a specialisation of the base dita map information type. Maps can guide users through their experience most often a dita map is only considered as a publications table of contents with some extra metadata and configuration setting added. These placeholders instructs the dita processing software to automatically. Preprocessing of map elements different in ditaot 2. Demo of adobe framemaker, justsystems xmetal, and oxygen xml with dita maps. As such, it is useful to keep in mind the following guidelines. Adobe techcomm blog adobe dita world 2017 day 3 summary.
Guidelines for creating dita maps and bookmaps flowiki. Introduction to dita, the dita concept topic type, the dita task topic type, and the dita reference and glossary topic types. Pdx dita a dita users group in the portland, oregon metro area. This fourlesson course introduces you to dita maps and bookmaps. Export the published dita map and its referenced dita and nondita resources to a zip file. Bookmaps consist of references to topics organized as book content. Whats the difference between map and flatmap methods. Darwin information typing architecture dita version 1. Dita is well supported by all the major commercial xml editors and xml component content management systems. A map can include relationship tables reltables that define hyperlinks between topics. Darwin information typing architecture dita is the best way to be smart about writing and publishing your business content. This course builds on what you learned in the four preceding classes. A dita map is basically a sequence of possibly nested topicref elements.
Dita code editing of dita best practices at the february 15th meeting of the pdx dita book club. Mar 29, 2016 learn about the differences between dita maps and bookmaps. Dita maps have unique attributes that are designed to control the way that relationships are interpreted for different output purposes. Five dita enthusiasts from companies such as jive software and netapp met for the first time on january 20th and discussed the first two chapters of dita best practices. A dita map is a container for topics used to transform a collection of content into a publication. Darwin information typing architecture dita is todays most powerful toolbox for constructing information. Attendees included dita enthusiasts from wacom and netapp. Configure a given map or topic type to include or exclude specific elements, either other topic types in the case of topics or specific element domains sets of mixin elements. It is useful to take some time to structure your information in your dita map. If you have created a book as a dita map document, you can publish the book in responsive html5 with framemaker as shown in this tutorial. Sep 10, 2012 you can use dita maps to plan your project create a dita map before you begin writing to help plan the topics you need for your deliverable. The streams returned by the flatmaps mapper are effectively concatenated. Create a variety of transformation scenarios by applying predefined or customized xslt to xml files, and execute them using a range of jaxpcompliant processors.
Framemaker vs indesign tables of contents book building features and long document support document editing. Like ditamaps, bookmaps are containers for structure and. Displaying topic titles in the dita map view ixiasoft. Jan 19, 2017 dita has a wellestablished ecosystem of supporting tools, both commercial and free open source, as well as an active and growing community of users, consultants, and tool providers. We used to be able to set attributes in the dita map and they would appear on the title page.
You dont need to create a for the screen media and a for the. Which is to say, a maps mapper lambda returns r, a flatmaps mapper lambda returns a stream of r stream. Maps can reference topics or other maps, and can contain a variety of content types and metadata. Learn about the differences between dita maps and bookmaps. A dita map describes the relationships among a set of dita topics. You can also edit the map using the main editing window. If your map was created using such a dtd, then use this procedure to rename it. As suggested by its name, a topicref is simply a reference or a pointer to a topic stored in a separate file of its own.
To add a topic reference, select dita insert topic reference. A dita bookmap is a useful variant of a map in which some specialized topicref elements. Authoring and publishing workflow using framemaker and robohelp. When you link a framemaker book or ditamap, html files are not created until you define the project settings and generate the help topics. This language reference describes the elements that comprise the topic dtd and its initial, infotyped descendents. Generating a book from dita map adobe support community. Both can be used to generate the output in html, pdf, and chm formats.
Similarly, the other main topic types of concept, reference, and troubleshooting are deliberately structured boxes that should make a good technical. We even grabbed a laptop and tested out a tag or two. Now, three dita pioneers offer the first complete roadmap for successful dita adoption, implementation, and usage. Books and other printed media are popular ways to present dita content.
Bookmaps enable users to organize their dita information into front matter, parts, chapters, and back matter. Link or import framemaker documents into a robohelp project. Link or import framemaker book or ditamap into a robohelp project. The bookmap specialization of dita s standard dita map allows you to organize your dita topics into a collection that can be printed as a book or other paged layout. Dec 01, 2010 the dita specification provides specialized map types. Framemaker vs indesign for technical documentation comparison.
You dont need to create a map for the screen media and a for the print media. We encourage you to complete the other classes before taking this class. Dita is explicitly architected to allow controlled extension from the base grammars so that you can do any of the following. A framemaker book is created based on the dita map. Tools and solutions for print and online publishing. Mar 22, 2017 demo of adobe framemaker, justsystems xmetal, and oxygen xml with dita maps. This document provides a comparison of the dita features in the default framemaker 8, 9, 10, 11, 12, and 2015, with those in ditafmx 1. However, there is a big difference between these two tools as they both use very different approaches. Rightclick the dita map folder, and from the menu that displays, click open map.
The package also includes a stylesheet for merging all the documents referenced by a map into a single dita file. The dita specification provides specialized map types. This follows from how user stories map to dita task topics and lead to an emphasis on core tasks where the user doesnt have to wade through irrelevant content in order to get things done. By specializing the general dita map structure into the general structure and subject areas used by most book oriented dtds, bookmaps enable users to organize their dita information into front matter, parts, chapters, and so forth. Each topic map in the dita map, gets added to the framemaker book in the xml format itself. Conditional publishing based on the use of a val file is included. The dita map view lists the topics that are included in a map. Tools publish book in responsive html5 from dita map. A map allows you to guide the relationships between.
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