24 Nov 08 Nightly builds

Hi there, just a little post to announce that from now on nightly builds of the DITA-OP Editor are available at pluginbuilder.org.

You can either download the latest plugins zip file here or use the nightly builds’ update site: http://dita-op.pluginbuilder.org/nightly/updateSite

Many thanks to Markus Wiederkehr and the pluginbuilder.org team for their help.

05 Nov 08 Mylyn WikiText targets OASIS DITA

Even before I start the DITA-OP project I was looking for ways to ease the authoring of DITA documents. As a developer I am used to manually edit XML files and thus a good XML editor is enough to me. But not everyone is a nerd and writing XML is not the panacea…

With the success of wikis I came to think (like many people) that if DITA syntax could be simplified enough to be expressed using a wiki markup (even a specialized one) it could be a leap forward into DITA adoption.

When I read, some months ago, that the textile-j project, lead by Dave Green, was moving into the Eclipse Mylyn project incubator I though that I had to keep an eye on this.

And now, Dave is announcing that Mylyn WikiText can now output DITA documents.

Those are really interesting new!

I have to admit that I have been quite busy since August and that my day job left me little time for this project (and my other personal projects).

However, I expect things to calm down in the next weeks and the work on M2 is almost done. So I cross fingers and hope I will have time to finish and release it before christmas.

Once this is done, I will concentrate on the map editor but I will surely take some time to evaluate the possibilities of integration of WikiText.