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DocBook V5.0 Approved as OASIS Standard

Richard Hamilton — Thu, 05 Nov 2009 05:48:30 +0000

The official ballot to approve DocBook V5.0 as an OASIS standard closed on October 31st, and the standard was approved with a healthy margin. Congratulations to Norm Walsh for driving the process and keeping the rest of us on the Technical Committee focused and moving in the right direction. His contribution to DocBook in general and [...]

DITA Specialization: An Overview

Richard Hamilton — Mon, 12 Oct 2009 23:49:32 +0000

XML Press author Zarella Rendon has written an article titled: DITA Specialization Overview. If you’ve ever wondered what DITA Specialization is all about, this will get you started. The article is a preview of Rendon’s forthcoming book, DITA Specialization, due for publication early in 2010. Read the DITA Specialization Overview.

Documentation Plan in DocBook Form

Richard Hamilton — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 17:47:15 +0000

Updated to fix broken link, 04 October 2009 One of the more popular pages on the XML Press website has been the documentation plan template from the book, Managing Writers: A Real-World Guide to Managing Technical Documentation. That template is now available as a DocBook XML file. The template in all formats, html, pdf, and DocBook XML, [...]

XML Press Newsletter — Inaugural Edition

Richard Hamilton — Thu, 24 Sep 2009 01:17:14 +0000

The inaugural issue of the XML Press Newsletter (html) (PDF) is now available.

XML Press Partners with WebWorks

Richard Hamilton — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 19:19:26 +0000

Press Release from WebWorks Free Books and Presentations from XML Press Writers Featured at WebWorks RoundUp Conference on Technical Publishing Trends Austin, Texas (PRWEB) September 21, 2009 — The WebWorks.com team is pleased to announce its partnership with XML Press, the leading publisher of books for technical communicators. To mark this new partnership, XML Press publisher Richard [...]

More Reviews of Conversation and Community

Richard Hamilton — Sun, 20 Sep 2009 18:35:21 +0000

Updated — 9/21/2009 More reviews have come in for Anne Gentle’s Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation. Here are a few highlights: “This is a very important book. Not reading it is like sticking your head in the sand and waiting for your career to dissipate into oblivion. Your community needs you.”– Craig Haiss, Full [...]

XML Press to Publish Communicating with Everyone by Brenda Huettner

Richard Hamilton — Thu, 17 Sep 2009 05:25:52 +0000

XML Press will publish Brenda Huettner's book, Communicating with Everyone in January, 2010.

XML Press to Publish DITA Specialization by Zarella Rendon

Richard Hamilton — Fri, 04 Sep 2009 23:19:42 +0000

In many ways, specialization is the key feature of the DITA XML standard. Specialization provides a structured mechanism, based on object-oriented programming principles, for extending the DITA schema to different areas. The DITA standard supports and encourages specialization, making it possible to fit the schema to the project, rather than bend the project to fit [...]

Conversation and Community Reviews

Richard Hamilton — Mon, 17 Aug 2009 18:44:29 +0000

Early reviews have been coming in for Anne Gentle’s Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, and the response has been positive. Here are links to the first few: Jeff’s Open Source Resource: Book Review: Conversation and Community, by Anne Gentle from Jeff “Jefro” Osier-Mixon Palimpsest: Let the conversation begin from Sarah O’Keefe Future Changes: Book Review: [...]

Anne Gentle Interview

Richard Hamilton — Fri, 31 Jul 2009 23:51:37 +0000

Anne Gentle’s new book, Conversation and Community: The Social Web for Documentation, is now available, so we took the opportunity to interview Anne about the impact of Social Media on technical communicators. What is Social Media and the social web? How do blogs and wikis fit into this area of the web? I think the general trend [...]