FrameMaker DITA and CMS unclassified

[Mitchell, Richard (NNPPI)]

LBS's (now PTC) AcquiRed is worth looking at for your CMS side of things.

Richard 

Gordon McLean wrote:
> I'm currently evaluating a variety of tools and solutions with an aim to
> moving the team to some form of single source process.
>  
> We have looked at, and like, DITA, and will be using that as the basis for
> our content.
>  
> However trying to find an end-to-end solution is proving hard, or perhaps
> I'm looking in the wrong places?
>  
> My belief is we need a database (CMS) to hold the content (as XML chunks),
> an editing application (FrameMaker?) as well as a set of rules to
transform
> the XML into something editable (or we get an XML editor like... XMetal?).
> We then need publishing engines to convert the XML to PDF, JavaHelp, HTML
> etc.
>  
> Ohh and we need to maintain three different versions (releases) of the
> documentation set.
>  
> The DITA side I've done a lot of research on, we have the beginnings of an
> Information Model and have planned out how we will specialise the schema
for
> our own use.
>  
> It's the tooling side that seems wide open. I've looked at the Open
Toolkit
> but (and this may be a strange admission for a TECHNICAL writer) it's a
> little heavy on the tech side. 
>  
> So, in short, I'm looking for any/all recommendations in this area. If you
> have a DITA based publishing system in place, with version control, I'd
love
> to hear about it!
>  
> Gordon
>  
> P.S. This is not an excuse for vendors to cold call me!
>
>

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