Ixiasoft News & Articles

Montreal-based Ixiasoft (news, site) has just announced the general availability of the new version of its DITA content management system. Version 2.6 comes with several enhancements to v2.1 released in October 2008, when Ixiasoft added two new important features: the CMS Project Manager and the DITA Map Editor.

This time around, they have focused on improving search and search results interface, as well as strengthening the relationship map editor and overall CMS usability.

Looking for a content management system that enables to you author and publish DITA-based technical documentation? Take a gander over this way. Canadian vendor, IXIASOFT, have just unwrapped the latest release of their XML-based solution — DITA CMS Framework 2.1.

Compatibility with DITA 1.1 is one of several interesting improvements bundled-up in this latest push.

The DITA standard is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical information.

Imagine a tag-based code, not dissimilar to HTML, which archives documents by topic and subtopic, and is designed for documentation which will be used for multiple purposes: on-line technical manuals, Help modules, regular website content, local search facilities, and innumerable automated tasks.