| Hi Michael,
For starters it appears that the only browsers supported are IE and Firefox.
On Apr 23, 2010, at 11:33 AM, Michael Priestley wrote:
If OASIS provided a web/hosted solution
for authoring specifications and producing various outputs, would that
solve the problem of custom tooling? Would that be of interest beyond just
the DITA TC?
Normal users would edit the content
directly, or edit in a word processor and then copy/paste into the editor.
The editor would enforce common structural requirements and prevent inconsistent
formatting. Expert users could take the content offline and work in the
XML editor of their choice.
That would give us the strengths of
an XML tool chain for managing reuse, creating multiple formats, providing
structural and presentational consistency. But without the weaknesses of
an XML tool chain in requiring expert authors, custom tool installations,
or extensive training.
The question is not meant to be hypothetical
- the technology exists today and is being used in similar scenarios. But
we can't use it with OASIS unless they host it - otherwise we'd be storing
and working with content outside of OASIS, which would break the rules.
I'm willing to investigate whether we could work with OASIS to make this
available for spec development, if there's broad enough interest.
For a sense of the editing interface,
you can take a look at an editor vendor's demo here:
http://xopus.com/demo/dita
This is preliminary support, so it's
slow to load a topic the first time you open one with a specific type.
You can add elements using the [+] dropdown.
Michael Priestley, Senior Technical
Staff Member (STSM)
Lead IBM DITA Architect
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25 |