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Main target: Provide basic integrated infrastructure for working with DITA and enable pilot testing.
Release Date: February 2009 (released for beta-testing community)
Development status: beta
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Feature group |
Functionality |
| DITA version support | DITA 1.1 |
| Infrastructure | - Project is an integral unit of work - “New Project” wizards - Predefined project templates - Set of wizards to create major object types: topics, maps, images - Project explorer for browsing content objects - Common error/content validation log - Mandatory or optional storing policies - Mandatory or optional classifications - Mandatory or optional name conventions - Categories/Tags as an alternative content browse method(optional or mandatory) - DITA object ID naming conventions |
| Preview | - Preview available in project/content explorer - Preview in context of transformation templates - Preview for linked topics in WYSIWYG and structural editors |
| Version control | - Version control as a central content repository - SVN, CVS support - Show history - Find differences between 2 object versions - Branching and tagging support |
| Multimedia | - Modify image (resize, crop, rotate) - Make a desktop screenshot |
| Modeling | - Browse specialization in WYSIWYG mode - Browse infotypes in resolved mode as element tree showing differences to ancestor infotype - All main types of DITA specializations possible in Visual mode - Specialization in wizard-like mode - Fully functional specialization import from DTD and schema - Topic and map editors fully support specialized DITA topics - All integrated editorial tools are aware of model and use it for operations - Infotype templates - WYSIWYG presentations based on model elements - Custom transformations - Naming conventions - Metadata for ditaval and tagging support - Classification dictionary - Export created specializations into DTD - Export created specializations into Schema |
| Editorial domain | - Visual editor for DITA topics in structural XML (source) or in WYSIWYG editor - Visual Editor for DITA Maps (Mind map style) - Focus on Map view(staying in context of map while editing) - Global (background) conref links validation and errors reporting - Display conref target in WYSIWYG view - On the fly validation of links - On the fly validation of XML structure - On the fly validation of model rules - On the fly validation of naming conventions and storing policies - On the fly validation of tag values (according to model) - Error and warning reporting in single log - D&D support in editors |
| Link management | - Track all inbound and outbound links of objects - Users can browse and navigate through all inbound and outbound links - Link management is integrated with refactoring functionality - Links are preserved while moving/renaming objects |
| Refactorings | - Update input and output links after object move or rename - Extract variable - Extract reusable text block |
| Tag management | - Possibility to define values for standards DITA tags(product, audience..) - Define additional tags using other props - Validation of content according to possible tag values - Highlight tagged content with configurable colors - Search for tagged content |
| Reusable block management | - Work with reusable text blocks (copyright, disclaimer, legal notices, warnings, etc) - “Create reusable text block” function - “Content Reuse” view |
| Content Publishing and Processing | - DITA OT is a main generation approach - Generation profiles - Generation log - Possibility to redefine transformations of different types for different model elements - Tag based conditional processing - Attributes filtering - Integration with generation profile - Redefine variables on Export - Export formats: All formats from DITA Open toolkit like: - HTML - EclipseHelp - RTF |
| Metadata | - Categorization is defined on Model level - Mandatory and optional categories - Categorization is integrated into “New Project” and “New Topic” wizards - Categories can be used for alternative objects navigation |
| Import / Export | - Import DITA topics and maps - Import graphics - Export full content project |
| Collaboration | - Track tasks - Assign (store links) between task and arbitrary set of objects - Central tasks repository for distributed editorial team |