Xml editors?

[Steve Nelson]

Hello,
Thanks for the reply.
Oxygen does indeed look promising. 
What would be the general method of enabling our engineers (mostly
electrical designers and technicians with no knowledge of xml, or time to
get under the hood) to author topics with Oxygen? How do I get Oxygen to
see/utilize the template and EDD I'm using in Framemaker? What template
files of mine do they need access to?
 
Thanks again.
 

Stephen Nelson
Technical Writer
Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell
39 Main St.
Scottsville, NY 14546
snelson at ambrell.com
585.889.0288 (office) 

 

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From: Yves Barbion [mailto:yves.barbion at gmail.com] 
Sent: Tuesday, November 15, 2011 2:12 AM
To: Steve Nelson
Cc: Framers
Subject: Re: Xml editors?


Hi Steve 

As Scott said, a "free XML editor" is fine to create basic DITA topics.
However, what will happen if they need to update the topics which you have
edited in FrameMaker, using DITA features such as conrefs, keyrefs, inline
elements etc.? Instead, you may want to use a good, professional XML editor
like oXygen XML Author, which is almost free (starting at $349). It gives
you plenty of bang for the buck and comes with some very nice transforms (to
WebHelp ePub etc.) out-of-the-box. We use it in combination with DITA-FMx
for authoring and publishing DITA 1.1 content. 

Cheers


-- 
Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu

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