Category Archives: dita

>Flexing the Vex editor

Posted on March 28, 2010 by kingargyle

>I’ve been doing more writing lately besides just blog posting. One of the problems I have with tools like Microsoft Office and Open Office is that it is very easy to mess up the presentation side of things. Especially when … Continue reading →

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>VEX (Visual Editor for XML) gets some life

Posted on October 28, 2009 by kingargyle

>It has been way to long since I reported anything meaningful on VEX, a WYSIWYG editor for XML files. It originally resided on SourceForge but has since migrated to eclipse in the WTP Incubator. Thanks to some community contributions we … Continue reading →

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>WYSIWYG XML Editting

Posted on July 15, 2009 by kingargyle

>Chris has started discussion on ways to make it easier for eclipse documentation to be updated. He has rightly stated that the state of eclipse documentation leads a lot to be desired. The docs are stored in a variety of … Continue reading →

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>Documentation is a Deliverable

Posted on January 21, 2009 by kingargyle

>One of the keys of Agile development is being able to release at any time as long as the build is clean. However, one of the areas that seems to be neglected by most projects is the documentation that goes … Continue reading →

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>How to Contribute to VEX

Posted on January 18, 2009 by kingargyle

>I’ve been asked a couple of times over the last several months how somebody can help contribute to VEX. I’ve updated the Committers and Contributors page with some links to information on how to go about checking out the source … Continue reading →

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>VEX Document Model, round 2

Posted on November 12, 2008 by kingargyle

>Since the last posting about the adventure of modeling VEX with EMF, I’ve made some more progress. The VEX Model is now switched over to EMF and the code is working as well. All existing functionality is work. Here is … Continue reading →

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>VEX Document Model and EMF

Posted on November 9, 2008 by kingargyle

>I’ve been working on the Visual Editor for XML for the last couple of weeks. Mainly getting it to the point where it is more closely integrated with the support that WTP XML editor and DTD editor provide. One of … Continue reading →

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>Generating Eclipse Help with DocBook or DITA

Posted on August 31, 2008 by kingargyle

>With the availabilty of the The DocBook Project and the DITA Open Toolkit, there should be no reason that end user documentation is still maintained in HTML files that have to be manually edited. Having it in HTML, just limits … Continue reading →

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>DITA-OP Milestone test release

Posted on June 23, 2008 by kingargyle

>DITA-OP is the DITA Open Platform, it is a set of eclipse plugins for making working with the DITA Open Toolkit easier. This is very cool stuff, and you can read more about it at DITA-OP.org.

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>Creating an XML IDE with eclipse

Posted on June 20, 2008 by kingargyle

>I’m an XML architect by day. It basically means that I sleep, eat, and breathe XML and XML related specifications. I also have to support over 40 member companies with their implementations of the standards I produce. So I need … Continue reading →

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