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Documentation client & server, poorman's DITA and improved export - Drupal-DITA documentation distro progress report 2

CEO, Co-Founder
Nov 14, 2010

Next video in the DITA documentation progress report series in which I demonstrate the results of the work of my colleagues Denes, Tamas and Kornel. In this video you'll see:

  • A prototype of the documentation client and server that can be used for centralized documentation similar to how the localization server works.
  • Poorman's DITA: A CCK form with the most important elements from the DITA topics (currently tasks and concepts) that is transformed into valid DITA XML
  • DITA file upload: upload function for individual topics
  • DITA folder import: a feeds extension that imports DITA topics from a folder in your Drupal installation
  • Usability improvements on the DITA map export functionality: it's no longer required to use the command line interface to export maps.
  • A short demo of the Views - Graphmind integration and how it can be used to query and insert lists of topics into your DITA map.

Together with this more practical demo post, I'm also publishing a post with an technological system overview (but that one won't be published to the Drupal Planet). You can find that post here.

Kristof Van Tomme is an open source strategist and architect. He is the CEO and co-founder of Pronovix. He’s got a degree in bioengineering and is a regular speaker at conferences in the API, developer relations, and technical writing communities. He is the host of the Developer Success & the Business of APIs and the API Resilience podcasts.

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