Re: [dita] Which version of the DITA 1.2 spec do you use, and why?

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Tom Magliery <>
Date
2012-09-12T19:15:11+00:00
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Re: [dita] Which version of the DITA 1.2 spec do you use, and why?
I sometimes use the online html version. More often I use the CHM version that we build ourselves into XMetaL because we have "jump to help on this element" built into it.

On the dev side we depend (obviously) on the DITA source to build that CHM.  In particular we also depend on the topic IDs being programmatically determinable from the element names (they actually ARE the element names at present, I believe).

mag

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Tom Magliery (on the iPod)

On Sep 12, 2012, at 7:28 AM, "Kristen James Eberlein" <> wrote:

  

    
  
  
    The DITA 1.2 spec was delivered in the
                following formats:

          
    
      
XHTML hosted on the OASIS Web site

      
CHM

      
PDF

      
DITA source

      
ZIP of XHTML file that can be used locally
              (late addition, available from TC home page, probably no
              one knows about it)

          

    
    
Which format do you use? If you use multiple formats, when
        and why?

    

    
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      Best,

      Kris

      

      Kristen James Eberlein

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