Key Concept Archive
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Podcast Posted: Interview with Michael Hahn, XML and SGML expert
Michael Hahn is the principal at Alphabetical by Author. He has almost twenty years' experience with markup language (SGML and XML) development and implementation. He has managed analysis session meetings and prepared reports for a wide variety of information types…
- Key Concepts: community, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing, xml authoring
- Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
Dynamic Publishing with Arbortext Data Merge [Arbortext User Meeting]
There are many situations where documents need to incorporate information stored in a database. A simple approach is to generate a report of the data from the database, and then copy and paste the data into the document. Unfortunately, that…
- Key Concepts: community, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, single-sourcing, xml authoring
- Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
Podcast Posted: Interview with Kevin Dietz, Timpani Software
This week's podcast features Kevin Dietz from Timpani Software. Timpani Software develops BuildBeat, a comprehensive automated software build management system, and MergeMagician, an automated merging server designed to work with your existing software configuration management (SCM) system. He uses DocBook…
- Key Concepts: arbortext editor, community, docbook
- Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
Podcast posted: Interview with Chris Western, tformat
This week I interviewed Chris Western from tformat, a PTC partner focused on training and services for the Arbortext Advanced Print Publisher (APP) (formerly known as 3B2). Chris was hired at Advent, the original developers of 3B2 as a writer…
- Key Concepts: arbortext layout developer (ald) (3b2), community
- Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
Podcast posted: Interview with Todd Hicks, Wolters Kluwer
This week I interviewed Todd Hicks from Wolters Kluwer. I've been looking forward to this podcast for a long time. Todd Hicks has been an Arbortext community member for a long time. Todd has presented at Arbortext User Group and…
- Key Concepts: arbortext editor, community, ui customization
- Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
Will you join us in community service?
Just before the holidays, I saw the following in Forbes:Recent research conducted by Washington, D.C.-based Corporation for National & Community Service reveals that charitable work literally makes the heart grow stronger. Individuals with coronary artery disease who participate in volunteer…
- Key Concepts: collaboration, community
- Filed under: Blog, Liz Asks
- Venues:
Podcast Posted: Interview with Robin Sloan, PTC
DITA may have begun with IBM, but it is now controlled by Oasis. PTC/Arbortext was the only vendor invited to be a charter member of the Oasis DITA Technical Committee. IBM was using Arbortext when they developed DITA, in fact. PTC…
- Key Concepts: arbortext editor, arbortext styler, community
- Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive
Podcast Posted: Interview with Keith McGinnis, Review Publishing
This week's podcast is an interview with Keith McGinnis. About a year ago, I did some stylesheet work for Keith McGinnis at Review Publishing. Review Publishing produces a weekly free newspaper and online news media portal. They were on their…
- Key Concepts: case study, community, data conversion, multichannel (omnichannel) publishing, xml authoring, xpath xslt xsl-fo
- Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
- Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive