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Functional Preview of DITA Visual Specialization Manager

Monday, December 7th, 2009 by Alexej Spas

Our development team is now actively working on release of first version of DITA Visual Specialization Manager (DVSM) that allows management of DITA Specializations in visual and easy way (for more details see: http://www.ditaworks.com/modeling/).

DITA Visual Specialization Manager is planned to be released this week, but now you have a possibility to get a first preview of available functionality by watching some fresh screen casts published on DITAworks website. These demos cover following functions of DVSM:

We are looking forward for your feedbacks on features presented there.

I remind that DITA Visual Specialization Manager will be available free-of-cost for non-commercial usage and for architects developing DITA models that are publically accessible.

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*instinctools to provide DITA Visual Specialization Manager free-of-charge

Friday, November 6th, 2009 by Alexej Spas

*instinctools GmbH has decided to provide free-of-cost licenses for its DITA Visual Specialization Manager, an application designed to make complex DITA specialization tasks easier to work with. These free licenses will be valid for unlimited time period but limited to the development and maintenance of open DITA Specializations e.g. specializations under OASIS for different industries such as Machine, Pharmaceutical etc. This offer is aimed at lowering the barriers to DITA usage and adoption. (more…)

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DITA Models single-sourcing: Why not?

Wednesday, February 18th, 2009 by Alexej Spas

It is a well known fact that DITA is a great information architecture that enables single source publishing of content into different formats. “Write once and use everywhere” is a motto of it. But when it comes to DITA definition itself and DITA specializations, we have to make decisions about format we want to maintain our models in. We need to choose between DTD or XML Schema. Once this decision is made and the model is developed, it is quite a time consuming operation to change chosen format and in most cases, people would stay with originally selected format because of the effort and time involved.

DITA itself has to be supported in both formats in parallel.

But why not consider single-sourcing of DITA models? I think this would be logical step following the single-sourcing philosophy of DITA.

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