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The DITA Productivity Pack streamlines authoring and improves quality

DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is designed for modularity, reuse, information sharing, and document evolution. Because it was developed more as an architecture than an application, you can easily adapt it to meet the needs of nearly any application in any industry.

DITA enables organizations with multiple document types and different rules for each type to easily reuse and share information across multiple documents and types. Furthermore, these benefits can be seen by organizations that share information with other companies, such as partners, vendors and customers.

The benefits that organizations realize through their DITA implementations include greater productivity, streamlined authoring and reuse, simplified content sharing, and greater flexibility in creating and managing document type rules and requirements.

Oberon Technologies used our extensive experience in implementing DITA-based solutions to develop the DITA Productivity Pack which contains utilities and applications that extend the ways you can benefit from your DITA-based publishing system. All of the extensions in the DITA Productivity Pack are designed to help your organization realize even greater benefits by taking advantage of DITA’s flexible architecture.

ID Auto-Generator

Creating and maintaining unique IDs for documents is a time-consuming, error-prone process, especially when you need to maintain unique IDs across all of your information and documents, including the information contributed by vendors and service providers. With the ID Auto-Generator, you will be able to:

Automatically generate IDs unique across both internal and external systems
Generate unique IDs during copy/paste or drag/drop operations
Significantly reduce the risk of missing or duplicate IDs
Provide greater transportability of information across documents and systems

Content Sorter

Most organizations have a need to provide sorted data at some point, whether to meet specific customer requirements or just to provide information in a friendly, easy-to-use manner. The Content Sorter makes an easy task out of sorting data or re-sorting editing data throughout the content development process. The Content Sorter enables you to:

Sort various constructs in hh DTDs and schemas, such as table rows and columns, list items, and index items
Dynamically sort data, even as content is updated, added and removed
Reduce errors and save time managing sorted data

Report Generator Framework

The Report Generator Framework is an extensible utility for authors and business users to develop and run reports on information within documents, such as tag usage, attribute values, and references to graphics and other entities. Reports can be run on individual documents, or on multiple documents in batch mode, with results displayed in the user interface, or saved to an Excel spreadsheet. Because the utility is extensible, it can be configured for your organization’s business rules and DTD or schema to help you:

Ensure complete and correct use of markup according to your business requirements
Ensure content is tagged appropriately for dynamic population of downstream processes
Easily review the change tracking history for a document or set of documents
Group report information by date, user, group, type, or other information relevant to your business processes
Improve the quality and consistency of your information

Attribute Manager

The Attribute Manager makes it easy to manage and assign values for the attributes defined by your DTD or schema. This application provides an intuitive user interface for business users to quickly and easily update allowable attribute values to adhere to your business requirements, even as your business changes. With the Attribute Manager, you can:

Assign attribute values across entire documents with a simple user interface
hhConfigure allowable attribute values without changing the DTD or schema
Reduce errors and inconsistencies
Streamline the authoring process by assigning default values and restricting attribute value options

Collection Builder

With the Collection Builder, you can automatically find and gather specific information within your document and organize this content into new, generated markup elsewhere in the document. Driven by an XML configuration file, the Collection Builder will automatically generate markup and content for XML constructs such as a table of contents, a summary of document changes, master lists, etc. Using the Collection Builder helps you to:

Streamline the authoring process
Improve the quality and consistency of your information
Reduce risk of errors and missed information