I’ve worked with Kristof in the past to publish DITA content through a Drupal site. I think it’s a very powerful idea, but also agree with Don that there would still need to be a way to validate the content against a schema. This could be achieved through
schematron / XSL, and you can also restrict specific fields in Drupal for a content type. This could populate the mandatory items, such as the title, prescribe the metadata in the prolog, and any other items of interest. You can also set the order of fields
in a Drupal document type, so you could have the content area within a conbody followed by one or more sections (for example).
I certainly think it’s worth exploring, but also agree that we need some way to ensure valid dita output.
Thanks and best regards,
Scott Hudson
Senior Consultant
Comtech Services Inc.
303-232-7586
From: Don R Day
Date: Thursday, March 26, 2015 at 6:55 PM
To: ""
Subject: Re: [dita-lightweight-dita] Lightweight DITA CCMS based on Drupal
Michael may appreciate my admission of acceptance earlier today in a tweet.
Note that there is a HUGE amount of work to turn a concept into a production-level service--what we see here is *feasibility*. Kristof can make it happen but his interest survey shows that he is realistic about the anticipated effort and the level of sponsorship
he'll need.
Here is my more serious concern: The kinds of new Drupal capabilities that Kristof demoed are extremely powerful for anyone needing to develop modular information for adaptive content delivery, but in the absence of a data definition layer (like a DTD or Schema
in even a simple form), there is no prayer of a chance for content interoperability--The Web According to Drupal, as I see it in Kristof's demo, has the potential to turn into a Tower of Babel as it were.
Lightweight DITA will offer such a schema, but will it be acceptable? I suspect the Web will need to invent something with much looser validation within those editable chunks.
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Don
On 3/26/2015 2:35 PM, Mark Giffin wrote:
Kristof van Tomme, who has a Drupal development company and is a DITA enthusiast, has come up with an idea for a starter DITA CCMS based on Drupal. This CCMS could use a Lightweight DITA mapping,
so I am throwing it on the idea pile for your perusal.
http://pronovix.com/blog/free-and-open-source-dita-ccms-modelling-arbitrary-xml-drupal
Mark Giffin
Mark Giffin Consulting, Inc.
http://markgiffin.com/
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