Gregg,

What tool are you using to render/edit the documents?

Are you using DITA Open Toolkit? Or some other tool?

Thanks,
George Nash

From: [email protected] 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Gregg Reynolds
Sent: Monday, January 8, 2018 2:24 PM
To: iotivity-dev <[email protected]>
Subject: Re: [dev] new documentation project

P.S. if XML makes you puke, the DITA Open Toolkit also supports markdown of 
some kind. I've never used it, but there it is. You have no excuse.

On Jan 8, 2018 2:52 PM, "Gregg Reynolds" 
<[email protected]<mailto:[email protected]>> wrote:
I've started a documentation project in case anybody wants to help out. It uses 
DITA. Just a skeleton so far but there is some info on security there.

Nice things about DITA:

  *   You write doc in small chunks that can be easily reused and reorganized. 
That means you can contribute easily without having to worry about document 
structure.
  *   It has sophisticated vocabularies for documentation.
  *   It's reasonably easy to get going by copying from existing articles. (The 
markup is very similar to HTML)
  *   Two open source implementations.
  *   Automated indexing, cross-referencing, etc.
  *   Multiple output formats.
  *   Customizing styles is (relatively) easy (if you know XSL)
  *   It's much easier to manage DITA doc than a Wiki.
This is just getting started so it's pretty skeletal, but what is there 
demonstrates indexing, glossary, and organization of content nodes using a main 
ditamap file.  I've begun filling in the Security part; it's still thin but you 
can see the narrative stragegy (I hope). Again, reorganizing the main doc is 
trivial, so if you have other ideas about how to organize the material it is 
easy to experiment.

See https://github.com/OpenOCF/ocfguide.  PDF output is in the ./out directory. 
You can generate HTML output easily, but the stylesheets are pretty primitive 
so I have not done so.

If you lament the state of Iotivity documentation now's your chance to help 
improve it.

If this ever turns into something useful it could be transferred to the 
Iotivity website, and a customized stylesheet written to generate HTML.

HTH,

Gregg

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