Anyone else looking at Frame >> WordPress (as a CMS)

[Scott Prentice]

I know some people that are going from DITA into WP (and Drupal). Here's 
a link to a recent Silicon Valley DITA Interest Group meeting where they 
presented their work ..

    http://svdig.ditamap.com/posts/267

They author documentation in DITA (potentially FM-authored) and publish 
into Wordpress. The resulting pages can be commented and searched in the 
WP environment. Future updates to the documentation and be uploaded into 
WP, replacing the previous versions, but maintaining the associated 
comments.

Using WP as the CMS host implies (to me) that you're trying to round 
trip (store data in WP, download/checkout to FM for authoring, then 
upload back to WP) .. which in theory could work if HTML is your source 
format. You'd just need the code bits to do the "checkin" and "checkout" 
.. but it certainly could work.

The WP->DITA->FM path that I've explored basically just requires a 
fairly simple PHP script that reads the WP database directly and writes 
out a file that is the entire database dump, but wraps up each "page" in 
DITA topics with titles and other markup properly DITA-ified. The 
resulting single DITA file can be opened in Frame which applies all of 
the proper formatting, then saved directly to a PDF.

In theory something similar could be used to round-trip content, but 
since the standard internal markup in WP is HTML, you'd have to be sure 
to author the DITA content using a very limited set of the 
specification. The nice thing about using DITA as the intermediate 
markup is that you have lots of tools for authoring and publishing 
available.

Cheers,

...scott



Art Campbell wrote:
> I've been thinking about going the other way, Scott, using FM to
> single-source HTML into WordPress containers of different types. I've
> done several sites that seem to be morphing their way to a
> documentation model, and I think WP would be a pretty strong CMS host.
>
> How have you been structuring the DITA on the WP side? Plug-ins, or
> your own stuff, or something else?
>
> Art
>
> Art Campbell
>                art.campbell at gmail.com
>   "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52
> Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
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>
>
>
> On Tue, Jul 5, 2011 at 2:51 PM, Scott Prentice <sp10 at leximation.com> wrote:
>   
>> Hi Art...
>>
>> I've been messing around with exporting DITA from Wordpress, then opening
>> that in FrameMaker for PDF publishing. Works pretty nice.
>>
>> ...scott
>>
>>
>> Art Campbell wrote:
>>     
>>> Just checking in... I've been using and pushing Wordpress as a CMS for
>>> several web sites lately and have been very pleased with the results.
>>> I'm at the point of seeing if anyone else is working on something
>>> similar -- I'm curious if anyone else is playing with a Frame >
>>> WordPress extraction, conversion, or what-have-you.
>>>
>>> Cheers,
>>> Art
>>>
>>> Art Campbell
>>>               art.campbell at gmail.com
>>>  "... In my opinion, there's nothing in this world beats a '52
>>> Vincent and a redheaded girl." -- Richard Thompson
>>>                                                      No disclaimers apply.
>>>
>>>       
>>     
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