DITA-OT Day 2014
Quo vadis?
Discussion about the present and the future of the DITA-OT project.
Panel moderated by George Bina
Providing Designers a Flexible Way to Publish DITA Content into Adobe InDesign
This presentation shows how Mekon have implemented a plugin that provides an approach to publishing
into InDesign, providing designers the flexibility they require.
Mark Poston
Publishing DITA Content Re-Used in Different Context in EPUB and Eclipse Infocenter by Using
DITA-OT
On the example of ice hockey rule books, we show how easy content can be re-used by creating new
context variants and how it can be published to EPUB or into an Eclipse help infocenter.
Gunthilde Sohn
SCORM Wrapper for DITA to SCORM
Hal Trent of Comtech will present a SCORM wrapper developed for learning and training output, which
could be potentially donated to the DITA-OT. The wrapper incorporates the current DITA to SCORM output and adds
a layer of JavaScript with the SCORM API to integrate the output generated from the DITA-OT into an LMS. The
wrapper passes test completion status to and from the LMS and provides a much needed output for the learning and
training implementation.
Hal Trent
DITA Open Toolkit PDF Generation with CSS
How about producing and styling PDFs only by using CSS? Join Radu for an overview of a new, innovative,
open-source DITA-OT plugin, which produces PDF from DITA content using CSS and an XML+CSS to PDF engine such as
the Prince XML or Antenna House engines.
Radu Coravu
DITA Open Toolkit PDF Plugins Without Fuss, Muss, or Writing XSL-FO
Did you know that you can create customized PDF plugins using an easy online tool? Join Jarno for an
overview of his plugin generator, what it produces, and his work developing the dynamic Web
interface.
Jarno Elovirta
PDFs from the DITA Open Toolkit: The Easy and the Not-so-Easy
With a few simple changes, it's possible to give the DITA-OT's default PDF output much of your own look
and feel. If you need to develop a DITA proof of concept for your organization, these changes might be all you
need to get the ball rolling. Join Leigh to find out what's easy to do, what's not quite so easy to do, and
where the real heavy lifting is.
Leigh White
dita2rdf: from trees to triples
The dita2rdf plugin is meant to extract metadata from DITA content and produce an RDF/XML output, which
is a serialization of the W3C RDF standard. The final objective is to get insights from the DITA content by
querying its metadata as a graph, not as a tree-like in XML. It also potentially enables the connection of the
DITA metadata with other types of entities such as products, people, events, etc.
Colin Maudry
Extending the DITA Open Toolkit: How crazy can you get?
DITA-OT includes extension points that let you do any number of things. This session will cover what's
available, what you should or shouldn't extend, and give out sample plugins to slice and dice your
content.
Robert Anderson
RNG to DTD and XSD using the DITA Open Toolkit
The new version of DITA, version 1.3, will use Relax NG as the normative grammar to express the DITA
content models. George proposed this idea and provided a working prototype under the DITA-NG open source project
and Eliot took this further making it an official proposal for DITA 1.3 and finalized its implementation. See
how Relax NG simplifies the way DITA content models and specializations are defined and what other benefits it
brings to DITA 1.3.
Eliot Kimber
Contributing to the Toolkit via GitHub
Now that the toolkit is hosted on GitHub, it's easier than ever to contribute changes to the DITA-OT
code. Roger will demonstrate how to fork the repository, create a new branch, change the necessary files and
submit a pull request.
Roger Fienhold Sheen
Looking under the hood of the DITA Open Toolkit
Participate in a deeper, more technical dive with the primary DITA-OT developer. This session will
cover the pre-processing architecture of the DITA-OT and information about the output
transformations.
Jarno Elovirta
Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit
Are you new to the DITA-OT? Come and get an overview of what it is, how it works, its history, and the
people involved. This will be an excellent start to DITA-OT day for novices.
Kristen James Eberlein