Same mess, different tools – Liz Fraley on the Content Content Podcast

In her interview, Liz Fraley talks in detail about the history of structured authoring and how her opinions have changed over 17 years in the technical writing industry. Last month I had the opportunity to talk with Ed Marsh of…

• Key Concepts: arbortext editor, best practices, community, dita, dita ot, page layout and print publishing, xml authoring, xpath xslt xsl-fo
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XPath and XSLT for Everyone

Anyone working with XML content can benefit from learning XPath. XPath is the way that elements are identified and located inside an XML Document. Want to find the first title in your document? Or the fifth? Or the 2nd one…

• Key Concepts: arbortext editor, best practices, community, dita, dita ot, page layout and print publishing, xml authoring, xpath xslt xsl-fo
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Podcast Posted: Interview with Bob Thomas, Tagsmiths

This month's interview on the PubWright podcast is Bob Thomas, from Tagsmiths. Bob started in SGML/XML in the mid-to-early 90s at Lucent. He transformed from a technical writer to data modeler, DTD writer, legacy data conversion specialist, and stylesheet developer….

• Key Concepts: community, dita, xpath xslt xsl-fo
• Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog
• Venues: Single-Sourcing Exclusive

Arbortext Formatter Shootout

Join APP Man, his evil FOe, and the FOSI Bear for a lively session on the various Arbortext formatting technologies. You'll learn how the capabilities of Advanced Print Publisher compare with those of the FOSI and XSL/FO engines. And don't…

• Key Concepts: arbortext editor, best practices, community, dita, dita ot, page layout and print publishing, xml authoring, xpath xslt xsl-fo
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The Path to Style: XPath in Styler, FOSI, and XSL

XPath is a powerful and intuitive way to retrieve information from, or apply style to, your document. In this session, you’ll discover how to use XPath whether you're styling your documents with Arbortext Styler, FOSI, or XSLT/XSL-FO, the basics of…

• Key Concepts: arbortext editor, best practices, community, dita, dita ot, page layout and print publishing, xml authoring, xpath xslt xsl-fo
• Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog, Liz Asks
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Custom Conversions: Using XSLT in Arbortext Editor

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 2, Episode 10 In this 30 minute, recorded web session, Jack Kulas explains how to take advantage of XSL processing inside Arbortext. Doing interesting things with automatic index generation, Jack shows the XSL-based tools that the…

• Key Concepts: arbortext editor, best practices, community, dita, dita ot, page layout and print publishing, xml authoring, xpath xslt xsl-fo
• Filed under: Arbortext Podcast, Blog, Liz Asks
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aQuery: Using jQuery in Arbortext

Arbortext Monster Garage, Season 2, Episode 3 In this 30-minute, recorded web session, James Sulak talks about aQuery – an open source jQuery implementation inside Arbortext. About this session Skill Level: Intermediate Presenter: James Sulak, Jones McClure Publishing Watch the…

• Key Concepts: arbortext editor, best practices, community, dita, dita ot, page layout and print publishing, xml authoring, xpath xslt xsl-fo
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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