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        I reviewed a long-ish Yahoo Group email on workflows. From that I distilled the issues about different ways to approach developing workflows in DITA.

Stan 

        

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        I reviewed a long-ish Yahoo Group email on workflows. From that I distilled

the issues about different ways to approach developing workflows in DITA.

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       SYNOPSIS of Yahoo Groups Discussion on DITA Workflows

https://groups.yahoo.com/neo/groups/dita-users/conversations/topics/36218?reverse=1

                             Stan Doherty

                           February 14, 2015                        

                         OASIS DITA TechComm SC

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The discussion touches upon three related issues:

A. Diagram Authoring Tool + Transformation to Interactive DITA XHTML

   - Jang Graat:

     > 2014 DITA Europe Paper "Flowcharting DITA"

(http://www.slideshare.net/JangGraat/flowcharting-dita)

     > Created an XSL to transform a Visio diagram into a DITA task topic

(proof of concept)

     > Working on a _javascript_ flowchart editor + XSL to transform to DITA

XML

   - Peter Ring:

     > BPMN designer applications:

       - BPMN to PNG via GraphViz

(https://github.com/trevershick/example-bpmn-dot-render)

       - yWorks yBPMN

(http://www.yworks.com/en/products_yfiles_ep_ybpmn.html)

B. Diagramming Library + Transformation to Interactive DITA XHTML

   - Google hits for tools that (can) generate interactive XHML workflows

(Stan)

     > NoFlo (http://noflojs.org/)

     > Cha (https://github.com/chajs/cha)

     > jWorkflow (https://github.com/tinyhippos/jWorkflow)

   - Bertrand Lefort: 

     > Possible to prototype in node.js or PhantomJS

(http://phantomjs.org)

     > NVD3 (re-usable charts for d3.js) (http://nvd3.org/)

     > Google charts

(https://developers.google.com/chart/interactive/docs/index)

     > HTML5 Rendering

   - Eliot Kimber:

     > jBPM - Business Process Management (BPM) Suite

(http://www.jbpm.org/)

     > Consider  specialization in DITA 1.3

   - France Baril:

     > BPMN-to-DITA task transform

      

https://xa.yimg.com/kq/groups/12744209/637242865/name/Bpmn%26DitaMPIPres.pptx

     > Created a tool to transform workflow diagram into a DITA task topic

C. Modeling Content to Move into a DITA Workflow

   - Kris Eberlein:

     > 2008 IBM Information Architect Workbench:

       -

http://dita.xml.org/resource/using-ibm-task-modeler-to-create-dita-based-information-sets

   - Ian Larner:

     > Freemind (http://freemind.sourceforge.net/wiki/index.php/Main_Page)

for diagramming

       a workflow and an XSLT to convert that Freemind model into XHTML wth

_javascript_. 

       - Sample:

http://www-01.ibm.com/support/knowledgecenter/SSKM8N/pdguides/clientDiagnostics.html

D. DITA Specialization to Depict a Workflow

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        Date submitted: 2015-02-14 12:03:47