DITA Support

The CCM of Choice for Technical Communication

The SDL Trisoft CCM complies with the DITA standards out-of-the-box. All benefits of DITA in terms of standard information architecture, pre-defined output formats, inter-exchangeability, etc. are readily available in the SDL Trisoft CCM.

What is DITA

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is the new international OASIS/XML standard for topic-based authoring of well structured content. DITA is designed for technical information based on a core set of information types: concept, task, and reference. It provides a mechanism for extending the structure to meet your industry's needs. DITA provides you with a standard, easy to use approach for creating topic-based information and assembling topics into books or other electronic deliverables.

DITA in SDL Trisoft

• Topic-based authoring of concepts, tasks and references and their specializations
• Support for DITA-based DTDs that can be used as is without need for further development
• Specializations allowing to adapt the DITA information model to suit specific requirements
• Assembly into DITA maps with explicit version control on the topics and illustrations
• Seamless integration with DITA compliant authoring tools and publishing engines
• Readily available DITA stylesheets to generate output formats such as PDF, HTML, HTMLHelp, JavaHelp and Eclipse Help
• Personalization of DITA topics through conditional text and variables
• Multilingual environment with powerful translation management and in-context pre-translation of DITA content
• Link integrity to ensure valid use of cross references, references to topics, conrefs etc.