Overview of the DITA Open Toolkit -
Kristen James Eberlein
Kristen James Eberlein -
Eberlein Consulting LLC and Chair, OASIS DITA Technical
Committee
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.
Looking under the hood of the DITA Open Toolkit -
Jarno Elovirta
Jarno Elovirta - main
DITA-OT developer
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.
Lightning Talk - Contributing to the Toolkit via GitHub -
Roger Fienhold Sheen
Roger Fienhold Sheen -
infotexture
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.
RNG to DTD and XSD using the DITA Open Toolkit -
Eliot Kimber
Eliot Kimber -
Contrext
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.
Extending the DITA Open Toolkit: How crazy can you get? -
Robert Anderson
Robert Anderson -
IBM
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.
Lightning talk - dita2rdf: from trees to triples -
Colin Maudry
Colin Maudry -
Semaku
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.
PDFs from the DITA Open Toolkit: The Easy and the Not-so-Easy -
Leigh White
Leigh White - DITA
Specialist, IXIASOFT
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.
DITA Open Toolkit PDF Plugins Without Fuss, Muss, or Writing XSL-FO -
Jarno Elovirta
Jarno Elovirta - main
DITA-OT developer
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.
DITA Open Toolkit PDF Generation with CSS -
Radu Coravu
Radu Coravu - Oxygen
XML Editor
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.
Lightning Talk - SCORM Wrapper for DITA to SCORM -
Hal Trent
Hal Trent - Comtech
Services
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.
Lightning Talk - Publishing DITA Content Re-Used in Different Context in EPUB
and Eclipse Infocenter by Using DITA-OT -
Gunthilde Sohn
Gunthilde Sohn -
Instinctools
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.
Lightning Talk - Providing Designers a Flexible Way to Publish DITA Content
into Adobe InDesign -
Mark Poston
Mark Poston -
Mekon
This presentation shows how Mekon have implemented a plugin that
provides an approach to publishing into InDesign, providing designers the
flexibility they require.
