This is a full day conference dedicated to the DITA Open Toolkit project, DITA-OT which is the
reference DITA implementation and the core of almost all DITA-based publishing solutions.
This year we host the 3rd edition of DITA-OT Day after the huge success of DITA-OT Day
2014 and 2015.
This free event is brought to you by Oxygen XML
Editor with the help of the following DITA-OT Day supporters:
Internationalization and the DITA-OT: Who does what? -
Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson -
IBM
While tools can be used to simplify
many things, localization can still be scary. In this session, we'll go over how
the toolkit is set up to handle publishing in multiple languages: what comes out
of the box? What should you expect to do on your own? And how has this changed
over the last few releases? Also: stories of panic from the
past!
Seven open-source DITA-OT plugins developed by Oxygen -
Radu Coravu
Radu Coravu - Oxygen
XML Editor
This session shows 7 DITA Open Toolkit open source plugins that the
developers of Oxygen XML have created or updated this year including:
DITA + CSS =
PDF - This pre-existing plugin now was updated to add support for
showing Oxygen track changes and comments.
DITA
Classic PDF Review - This plugin adds support for showing Oxygen
track changes and comments in the classic PDF output.
Media
Support Plugin - Plugin which adds the possibility to embed videos
(including YouTube videos) and audio resources in DITA topics and publish to
HTML and PDF.
DITA
Merged - Plugin which produces a single merged XML file from the
entire DITA content.
DITA Relax NG Defaults - Plugin which adds support to a DITA-OT
distribution to process Relax NG-based topics and maps.
DITA-OT internals and future development plans -
Jarno Elovirta
Jarno Elovirta
The internals of DITA-OT are in
perpetual motion and most of these changes are not visible to end users. In this
talk we go through changes in the black box and describe future development
plans.
Lightning Talk: Simplified contribution process for the DITA-OT
documentation -
George Bina
George Bina - Oxygen
XML Editor
Now it is very easy to contribute to
the DITA-OT documentation - just read the developer docs and use the "Edit"
button to open the source topic from GitHub for editing. Save will automate all
the contribution process, sending a pull request with your proposed
changes.
Lightning Talk: Documentation Development(s) -
Roger Fienhold Sheen
Roger Fienhold Sheen -
infotexture
This talk provides an overview of
recent changes to the DITA-OT documentation, points out open issues, highlights
ideas for future improvements, and closes with room for suggestions from the
community, a call for contributions and a brief demonstration of the pull
request approval process that is applied when people submit changes to the
development documentation via the /Edit this Page/ links.
Lightning Talk: Gotcha! Upgrading PDF plugins to DITA-OT 2.x -
Leigh White
Leigh White -
IXIASOFT Technologies
There are some significant changes to
DITA-OT 2.x that can make upgrading PDF plugins written for earlier versions of
the OT a challenge. Having just upgraded several plugins, and released a new
edition of "DITA For Print," Leigh will share a few of the major things to look
out for.
Using the Open Toolkit Through Docker Containers -
Eliot Kimber
Eliot Kimber -
Contrext
Docker containers make it easy to
package and use different configurations of software components. Docker
containers can also provide the dependencies needed to run a given piece of
software. For the Open Toolkit, you can use Docker containers to easily
provision and run the Open Toolkit without worrying about the local Java
configuration or other dependencies. Docker also makes it easy to set up custom
configurations of the Open Toolkit or use different versions. This presentation
shows how to use Docker-based Open Toolkit packages.
Large Scale Production Using Project Maps -
Youssef BENNANI
Youssef BENNANI - SAP
SE
This presentation will show how SAP
has integrated the DITA Open Toolkit to create a large scale production
infrastructure able to create daily builds producing 50 000+ outputs for all SAP
Product documentation. This covers the end-to-end process from getting the DITA
content from the CMS to publishing the produced outputs to the appropriate
delivery channels, using so-called project maps as a key ingredient. Advanced
features like peer linking across outputs will be shown, as part of the overall
implementation.
Fixing errors during authoring stage
is cheap in both technical communication and software development; fixing errors
after publishing is expensive. In this talk I demonstrate a QA method for
software documentation in DITA.
Lightning Talk: The use-cases for a "DITA to resolved DITA"
transformation -
George Bina
George Bina - Oxygen
XML Editor
A DITA to simplified/resolved DITA
transformation provides a solution for some of the possible issues with
translating DITA. There are also other advantages, especially in connection to
the increased dynamics in DITA-OT development. Join me to discover how a DITA to
resolved DITA can help you!
Long term DITA-OT planning -
Kristen EberleinRobert Anderson
Kristen Eberlein -
Eberlein Consulting LLC, Robert Anderson
- IBM
Kris and Robert will discuss the long
term future of DITA-OT: what can we all do to ensure the continued health of
this critical piece of the overall DITA infrastructure?
