DITA 1.1 editor?

[niina]

Hi all,

I'm investigating how to manage documentation in DITA 1.1 format with Alfresco. It seems that default editor (TinyMCE) will not be capable for handling such a complex schema structures, and I also have difficulties to make all the imports to work for starters (that is, I haven't been able to upload DITA schemas into Company Home > Data Dictionary > Web Forms because I don't know how URN references are supposed to be resolved).

Is there anyone who has experience about Alfresco + DITA 1.1, any external editor that you have integrated with Alfresco? Or any success stories with getting default editor to work with DITA 1.1 schemas, what did you do to make imports work?

I appreciate any answers or information you can give. Thanks!

[mahesh_kumarg]

Hi niina

I am Mahesh, Product Manager for Adobe FrameMaker and Adobe Technical Communication Suite.

The current version of FrameMaker -> FrameMaker 9 supports both DITA 1.1 and integration with Alfresco. Let me explain this.
DITA 1.1 support is fully enabled in FrameMaker 9 and this versions also provides rich integration with numerous Content Management Systems. The integration is based on the communication protocol WebDav, which almost every CMS supports.
FrameMaker natively manages all the dependencies and works niceley with these WebDav supported CMSs. Alfresco also supports WebDav and I am pleased to let you know that Adobe has certified this integration with Alfresco.

You may want to try this out. Our blog also provides information through detailed posts. The blog link is https://blogs.adobe.com/techcomm/

Please feel free to write to me at mahesh@adobe.com in case you have any questions.

Thanks and regards
Mahesh

[darryl_staflund]

Take a look at:

http://wiki.alfresco.com/wiki/Componize

It adds content-based editing and publishing based on the DITA standard.

Darryl

[ditalabs]

Hi niina,

You might find our Free Open Source solution of interest: http://www.ditalabs.com/

There is a demonstration currently running of Alfresco Community 3.3 available for trying online

http://ditalabs.com/Demonstrations

Kind Regards
Alex Griessel
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