Category Archives: DITA

Items related to the Darwin Information Typing Architecture, an XML-based architecture for creating topic-oriented, information-typed content that can be reused and single-sourced in a variety of ways.

Customizing PDF2 Output

Thursday, January 15, 2009

When customizing the output of the Idiom PDF2 plugin for the DITA Open Toolkit to display product-specific headers and footers, or different fonts and logos for different clients, customizations can be stored in separate folders and referenced in the Ant build file using the customization.dir property. To store customizations for Project A and Project B, [...]

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DITA for WordPress

Friday, December 12, 2008

Claude Vedovini has released a set of plugins for the DITA Open Toolkit and WordPress that allow you to publish DITA content to a WordPress site. According to the announcement, the OT plugin can be used to transform a DITA map into a single file, and send the result to the blog via the XML-RPC [...]

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RenderX XEP Setup in oXygen

Thursday, August 7, 2008

Recently, a client asked for assistance in setting up the RenderX XEP processor for use with the oXygen XML editor on Mac OS X. XEP is an XSL FO processor that can be integrated with oXygen to transform DITA maps to PDF via the PDF2 transformation scenario. The steps below describe the basic setup, and [...]

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