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By: Wendell Waggett

Wendell Waggett — Wed, 30 Mar 2011 10:02:08 +0000

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Found this while searching another article. Great info. Thanks .

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Sat, 12 Jun 2010 12:28:42 +0000

Merging Worlds: DITA and WordPress | I'd Rather Be Writing – Tom ……

…s you them for free. For example, in your WordPress help, you can include the following: Comments; Gravatars; Tag Clouds; Categories; Related Posts … So in my trial import, the image (for washing cars) didn’t show. What’s the solution for this? …

By: mssmotorrd

mssmotorrd — Sun, 03 May 2009 12:52:28 +0000

It’s the first time I commented here and I must say you share us genuine, and quality information for bloggers! Good job.
p.s. You have a very good template for your blog. Where did you find it?

By: Robert Nagle

Robert Nagle — Wed, 11 Feb 2009 19:05:10 +0000

Judging from you

I like the concept of this. I’m currently working on a hybrid ebook + wordpress site. The ebook is coming from docbook or TEI, the wordpress is handling user content (announcements, comments, etc). The ebook needs to be in either docbook or TEI (for conversion into .epub format), while the online version of the ebook content will be static xhtml. It didn’t seem practical or cost-effective to use an xml-based web publishing system; I opted instead for 2 side by side systems with a consistent layout/css. I could maintain a master document myself offline.

(Maybe if there were cheap online XML editors, native XML CMSs would take over. But last I checked, editing XML online with a WYSIG tool struck me as expensive for small noncommercial.

WordPress solutions are practical solutions for news and commentary with an expected lifespan of 5 years or less and requires diligence to security and software updates. The static content on the other hand is easy to move, wayback machine friendly, invulnerable to xss, etc.

WordPress has good xml export capability but I think it looks more like RSS than anything else. It would be nice if there an easy way to export offline/standalone html indexes, toc’s. Perhaps this is just a matter of writing a mysql-to-xml script (not that I could write it!). But it seems to be a straightforward talk.

By: Mike Little

Mike Little — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:30:40 +0000

Hi Tom,
The image import should work, but as it tries to copy the image to a directory relative to the root of your blog, it probably didn’t have permission to create the directory there.

The on line help we created is for an internal tool sold to Northgate’s customers. The system will never be visible to the outside world.

By: Matt

Matt — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 16:23:20 +0000

Nice, i think this could really save me a lot of time. I love the features, and i can’t wait to try some more things out, thanks for the tip.

By: DITA goes Wordpress | kopf-bahnhof.de

DITA goes Wordpress | kopf-bahnhof.de — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 07:50:32 +0000

[...] Mit dem “DITA-to-WordPress importer tool” gibt es nun ein neues Tool, mit dem DITA-konforme Inhalte direkt aus dem DITA Open Toolkit in WordPress-Webseiten integriert werden können. Programmierer Mike Little hat es damit endlich geschafft, dem Open Toolkit einen vernünftigen Weboutput hinzuzufügen. Dank der ausgereiften WordPress-Technologie, die neben der frei erhältlichen Basisversion auch noch tausende unterschiedlicher Plug-ins unterstützt, könnte man nun sogar von Web 2.0 Inhalte integrieren. Ein kurzes Video-Tutorial und Downloadlink finden Sie hier. [...]

By: Tom

Tom — Mon, 09 Feb 2009 04:07:11 +0000

Mike,

Thanks for the comment. A couple of questions. I noticed that the image paths are relative rather than absolute. So in my trial import, the image (for washing cars) didn’t show. What’s the solution for this?

Also, you mentioned that you created this importer for a project you did at a company. Is there a finished WordPress help site you could point me to that implements this in full scale?

Thanks,

Tom

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Sun, 08 Feb 2009 17:13:51 +0000

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