Robert Anderson talks about some benefits of DITA
Robert Anderson, Chief Architect of the DITA Open Toolkit and member of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee, talked with IDI about DITA, its benefits, and the role of specialization. DITA, which revolves around content units called topics, much like in online help, which are re-usable in a “mix and match” way. Additionally, the tags can inherit properties that allow you to automate certain tasks (such as prompting the author to include steps in an ordered list) and add settings to process content according to its heirarchy in a structure (such as translating all content that inherit the “translate” property). Hear Robert talk about DITA. – 5.23 MB
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