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 2nd edition of DITA-OT Day after the huge success of DITA-OT Day
2014. You can find slides and recorded sessions of the last year event at the DITA-OT Day 2014 event page.
This free event is brought to you by Oxygen XML
Editor with the help of the following DITA-OT Day supporters:
DITA-OT Patterns and Anti-patterns -
Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson -
IBM
What might often seem like a good way to use or extend DITA-OT, but
likely result in trouble later? What is the alternative? This session will cover
known traps that organizations have fallen into when using DITA-OT, and suggest
how to avoid those issues or (perhaps with difficulty) recover from the
mistakes. The session will leave time for discussion about other traps that
audience members may have fallen into.
Lightning talk: Why "startcmd" is not your friend -
Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson -
IBM
The startcmd batch script made it possible for many to easily use
DITA-OT, but whether you realize it or not, it's no longer really necessary.
I'll briefly explain where it came from, why it was always more of a kludge than
a Feature, and how better DITA-OT designs mean it's no longer
needed.
Lightning talk: Markdown plugin -
Roger Fienhold Sheen
Roger Fienhold Sheen -
Infotexture
This talk introduces Jarno Elovirta’s DITA-OT Markdown plugins, which
extend the DITA Open Toolkit so you can use Markdown files directly in topic
references and export existing DITA content in Markdown format for use in other
publishing systems. This makes it easier for people to contribute content to
DITA publications, enables mobile authoring workflows, facilitates review
processes with less technical audiences and expands the range of publishing
options to workflows based on Markdown.
When creating a product, a good design is critical; in many cases, this
rule applies not only to the outside, but also to the parts inside that normal
users will not see. Unfortunately, to those who looked, the inner workings of
the early toolkit seemed to have almost no design at all. In this session, we'll
talk about how Jarno has cleaned up the hidden inner workings of the toolkit --
and how everyone benefits from these changes to things they might never
see.
Lightning talk: DITA-OT ... reloaded! -
Helmut Scherzer
Helmut Scherzer -
Giesecke & Devrient
Professional writing can require several features that the present
DITA-OT (2.1.1) has not implemented. There are several expensive plugins
available as commercial products to improve that situation. Helmut Scherzer
presents a match to highly professional DITA-OT extensions which contains a list
of more than 20 new powerful features to PDF2 – offered to become part of the
public DITA-OT.
The DITA Community GitHub organization serves as a general place for
people to contribute DITA Open Toolkit plugins and other DITA-related tools and
utilities that are not maintained by DITA-OT or other projects. This
presentation provides an overview of the DITA Community organization, what's
there today, and how you can contribute.
Creating DITA-OT constraint/specialisation plugins -
Radu Coravu
Radu Coravu - Oxygen
XML Editor
This presentation will address the problem of creating DITA
constraints/specialisations to customize DITA to meet your specific needs. We
will identify a problem, create a Relax NG constraint/specialization to solve it
and convert that to DTD. All these will be packaged as a DITA-OT
plugin.
There are multiples ways to run DITA-OT and some of them are good,
some are bad, and some are just plain ugly. This presentation goes through
different interfaces to DITA-OT and when to use them.
Lightning talk: Parameters annotations for DITA-OT plugins -
Radu Coravu
Radu Coravu - Oxygen
XML Editor
Each DITA-OT plugin provides a set of parameters that can be
configured to customize the publishing process. As these need to be made
available to users it is important to have an automated way of discovering these
parameters and additional information about them - what they represent, what
values are possible, etc. DITA-OT makes this possible by allowing parameters to
be annotated.
Lightning talk: Publishing with DITA-OT - the CMS perspective -
Jean-François Ameye
Jean-François Ameye -
Ixiasoft
Publishing from a CMS imposes specific requirements on the DITA-OT. We
will review these requirements while showing how IXIASOFT integrated the DITA-OT
into their Output Generator.
Lightning talk: Selling DITA with demo data -
Joe Gollner
Joe Gollner -
Gnostyx
Over a couple of years, the Gnostyx team has been preparing and
refining a DITA Demonstration Data Set. It's purpose is to provide members of
the community a functionally realistic data set with which to demonstrate DITA
based applications. It was made available publicly in early 2015 and has since
been adopted and used by several members of the DITA Community. This talk is
really a demonstration of some of the business use cases that we use to convince
business stakeholders that DITA demands serious attention. People will learn a
little about the DITA Demonstration Data Set and some of the sales pitches that
they might want to use, and to demonstrate, in the future.
Lightning talk: Multiple OT with Git -
Eliot Kimber
Eliot Kimber -
Contrext
If you need to maintain multiple configurations of the OT for
day-to-day or minute-by-minute changes to the OT for different projects,
clients, etc., you can use git to do it. There are some tricks and gotchas but
it does work.
Lightning talk: DITA-OT documentation update -
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 and a call for
contributions.
Become a DITA-OT Day Supporter Cost: 500 EURO Benefits: logo on the
event website and acknowledgement of support during the event. To apply please
contact .
