08 Dec 08 DITA for Wordpress

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A few days ago I released the DITA-OT and the Wordpress plugins that enable me to publish part of the (almost inexistant) DITA-OP documentation on this blog. I am talking about the About, Download and Getting Started pages that appear in the menu up here.

The DITA-OT plugin transforms a map into a single file, suitable for publication, and automatically call the xmlrpc API of the blog to publish it.

The DITA Wordpress plugin adds a css (a slightly modified version of the DITA-OT commonltr.css) to your Wordpress theme to properly render the standard domains.

You can download both plugins here, they are released under the GPL license.

• The dita2wp.zip contains a README file with instructions about installation and usage of the plugin.
• The wp-dita-plugin.zip is very small Wordpress plugin, just unzip the file into your wordpress plugins folder and activate it in your Wordpress admin interface.

I tested only with Wordpress but the DITA-OT plugin should be able to publish to any blogging platform that supports the Blogger API.

UPDATE: A reader noticed a small mistake in the README file of the dita2wp plugin. In order to install the plugin in the DITA-OT the command should read ant -f integrator.xml instead of anf -f integrate.xml.

I also notice that, since 2.7, it is not possible anymore to update Wordpress pages using the Blogger API. If this is what you do with this plugin (my case) then you will have to change the xmlrpc.php page in your wordpress installation. Go to line 1912 and replace the following code:

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if (!$actual_post || $actual_post['post_type'] != 'post') {
	return new IXR_Error(404, __('Sorry, no such post.'));
}

with this one:

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if (!$actual_post) {
	return new IXR_Error(404, __('Sorry, no such post.'));
}

Tags: blogger, dita, plugin, wordpress