[oXygen-user] Editing & Processing DITA on 8.2

[Khaled Aly]

Hello Sorin / oXygen users

Can anyone provide some guidelines/clues on using DITA 1.0 on oXygen 8.2 
(while it does not yet incorporate DITA's Open Toolkit), provided the right 
DTDs are referenced. I got below some specific issues:

- Filename extensions: although DITA's topic or map markup is well-formed 
XML and should validate against the corresponding DTD, DITA uses the file 
name extensions: *.dita and *.ditamap. As far as editing and validating, 
they seem to validate well with these extensions.

- Now for OT processors that are available in O2 current version: Saxon 
6.5.5 and FOP, can we set transformation scenarios, based on OT supplied 
XSLT sheets and process them to generate PDF out of a topic file or a map 
file?

- This is probably for oXygen support. Siren: is the direction to strictly 
follow the processing tools and scenarios specified by OT (since they are 
part of the standard), or can we expect oXygen as an independent vendor to 
provide further transform scenarios beyond those specified by the OT.

There is a bit of fuzziness of whether DITA is perceived as an XML 
application or as a tool. I tend to think of it as an application, but if it 
is fully dependent on the OT for processing, then it is more like a tool 
without a specific realization.

Appreciate your feedback .
Khaled

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Oxygen XML Editor support" <>
To: "Khaled Aly" <>
Sent: Monday, August 13, 2007 10:20 AM
Subject: Re: DITA?


> Hello,
>
> The next version of oXygen will include DITA support and will be released 
> in a couple of months.
>
>
> Best regards,
> Sorin
>
> http://www.oxygenxml.com
>