DITA
Angelegt Sonntag 08 März 2020
Further reading about DITA can be found under http://xml.coverpages.org/dita.html.
Read ‘Terminology Management in a DITA Environment’ here.
The solution is org.doctales.terminology (https://doctales.github.io/plugins/org.doctales.terminology.html), an open source tool that hides away as a plugin for the DITA Open Toolkit (DITA-OT), which can be found under https://www.dita-ot.org/. It contains specialized DITA topic types that are needed to create a terminology database.
The plugin org.doctales.terminology consists of:
- A new DITA topic type called termentry, that represents a single term
- An <oXygen/> XML framework that contains stylesheets and author actions for the <termentry> topic.
- A terminology checker, that detects deprecated terms in a DITA file and offers recommended synonyms to the author.
- A TBX-Basic converter to convert the DITA terminology to TBX-Basic for delivering it to a language service provider (LSP).
- A TBX-Min converter to convert the DITA terminology to TBX-Min for delivering it to a language service provider (LSP).
- A termbrowser, that is based on the plugin com.oxygenxml.webhelp that is shipped with the <oXygen/> XML editor.
For programming the termbase part or for working with the aforementioned tools an xml editor might be needed. In that case it is suggested to use CAM editor.
Should additionally a DITA Converter be needed that can be found here: XMLmind DITA Converter:
XMLmind DITA Converter is a free, open source software licensed under the terms of the Mozilla Public License version 2.0.
Allows to convert the most complex DITA 1.0, 1.1, 1.2 or 1.3 documents to production-quality XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.01, XHTML 5, Web Help, Java™ Help, HTML Help, Eclipse Help, EPUB 2, EPUB 3, PDF, PostScript®, RTF (can be opened in Word 2000+), WordprocessingML (can be opened in Word 2003+), Office Open XML (.docx, can be opened in Word 2007+), OpenDocument (.odt, can be opened in OpenOffice/LibreOffice 2+).
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