Wiki content has become increasingly popular within the DITA community, as evidenced by the recent announcement of the DITA2Wiki open source project. While most of these projects enable DITA-to-wiki conversions, community interest has been expressed for full-cycle wiki-DITA-wiki transformation capability. Mylyn WikiText hopes to close this loop with the addition of its support for DITA output. Mylyn WikiText can now create OASIS DITA as output from wiki markup.
Mylyn WikiText provides a flexible architecture supporting multiple wiki markup languages. This provides organizations with many options when considering a DITA toolchain, whether it be a one-time conversion of existing wiki assets to DITA, or as an integrated part of a publishing process. Currently supported are MediaWiki, Textile, Confluence, TWiki and TracWiki.
I am also very excited about the recent DITA Open Platform project, which aims to enable Eclipse as a full-fledged DITA authoring and publishing platform. With the capabilities provided by Mylyn WikiText and DITA-op, Eclipse as a platform becomes a compelling cross-platform DITA authoring toolset.
Mylyn WikiText originated from Textile-J, where parsing capabilities evolved to support more than 5 wiki markup languages, conversion of wikitext to DocBook, integrated support for the Ant build system and first-class integration with the Eclipse platform.
Mylyn WikiText is looking for community feedback on wikitext to DITA conversion. Please feel free to contact me directly via email or post a bug or enhancement request to the WikiText component of the Mylyn project.
6 comments:
Hi David, can you change your blogger preferences to show full posts on syndication? It's causing PlanetEclipse to only show a bit of your post and that makes me a sad panda :(
Other than that, AWESOME news about Dita + WikiText
Chris,
Thanks for the thumbs-up on DITA support.
Also changed the syndication preferences to show full posts. Thanks for the tip.
David
Another project that will be adding DITA support will be the VEX WTP Incubator project. I just got the CQ approved for parallel checkin of the DITA DTDs, so this might help you as well.
David, VEX looks fabulous. It reminds me of XML Mind, only for Eclipse. Nice work.
David,
This is great news. Congratulations! The combined power of a full round trip "DITA2Wiki2DITA" should rock the DITA community at large. I'm looking forward to trying this out!
- lisa
open-source DITA2Wiki Project
Hi David, this is fabulous news!
Have you considered submitting an EclipseCon 2009 talk about this subject? Wiki content to DITA, and then whatever outputs after that (edit the DITA and the back to the wiki, or multiple outputs).
I think it would be a great topic for EclipseCon 2009. In fact, maybe you and Claude for the DOP would want to collaborate on a tutorial submission. You get two free registrations to EclipseCon if you have a tutorial. :-)
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