S. Nielsen wrote: > Can you provide me more details about how XMLMind is integrated with > DITA? I am reading an old PDF (from 2007) named "ditaguide.pdf" that I > found on Scriptorium's website and it says that XMLMind is free and that > there is a DITA template add-on that needs to be installed for the New > option on the File menu to provide the option to create a concept, task, > reference, general topic, or ditamap. > > I know that XMLMind is not free, but does it still require you to > install a DITA template add-on to get the integrated DITA functionality? > Or is that built in now? And what else is built in for DITA support? > Does it support ditabookmaps? Is the DITA-OT built in and does the > editor transform the xml to PDF through the DITA-OT? I need to produce > PDF and I am wondering how XMLMind produces the DITA to PDF. > > So my requirements are to use an xml editor with DITA templates > integrated and to publish to PDF. Does your editor provide that support? > And is it for DITA 1.1 or does it now support DITA 1.2.? >
* XMLmind XML Editor supports DITA 1.2 out-of-the-box, whatever the edition. * We fully support all the "Technical content elements", this includes bookmaps. * We no longer support the DITA Open Toolkit. Instead we have developed from scratch a complete, free, open source replacement for the DITA OT called XMLmind DITA Converter. See http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/ * XMLmind DITA Converter is fully integrated in Professional Edition but not in Personal Edition (but you may install an evaluation key in Personal Edition to enable this feature. See http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/evaluate.html ). * XMLmind DITA Converter allows to convert the most complex DITA 1.2 documents to production-quality XHTML 1.0, XHTML 1.1, HTML 4.1, Java Help, HTML Help, Eclipse Help, EPUB, 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+), OpenOffice (.odt, can be opened in OpenOffice.org 2+). * As always with XMLmind XML Editor, if you need to generate PDF you'll have to install the add-on called "Apache FOP 1.x XSL-FO processor plug-in". (We also support RenderX XEP through this other add-on "RenderX XEP XSL-FO processor plug-in".) If you need to generate RTF, WordprocessingML, Office Open XML, OpenOffice, you'll have to install the add-on called "XMLmind FO Converter XSL-FO processor plug-in". All these add-ons are publicly available at no additional cost (but the RenderX XEP plug-in is not self-contained: you need to have a working copy of XEP in order to use it). In order to download and install add-ons, simply use menu items "Options|Install Add-ons". * This document is up to date and describes how DITA has been integrated to XMLmind XML Editor: XMLmind XML Editor - DITA Support http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/dita/index.html http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/_distrib/doc/dita/help.pdf Note that we still have some work to do. Excerpts from http://www.xmlmind.com/xmleditor/changes.html#v4.8.0: --- However, while there should be no problem processing the most complex DITA 1.2 documents (thanks to ditac), XXE v4.8 does not make it easy working with keyref and conkeyref attributes. For example, there is currently no way to establish a key space for use by a set of topics. All these shortcomings will be addressed in future versions of XXE. --- -- XMLmind XML Editor Support List [email protected] http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support
