IXIASOFT releases DITA CMS V. 3.4

Component content management vendor IXIASOFT has unfurled the DITA CMS V. 3.4. With full support of DITA 1.2 features, DITA CMS V. 3.4 continues to offer organizations a leading-edge CCMS enabling them to fully benefit from the DITA standard and continue to improve their content reuse strategy.

Highlights of  DITA CMS V. 3.4 include:

integration with Quark XML Author for Microsoft Word—a combined solution improves cross-departmental collaboration on the production of technical documentation by making it possible for non-technical subject matter experts to create structured content without using complicated DITA or XML editors using Microsoft Word to create or edit XML content;

taxonomy editor—allows users to easily manage taxonomies and the documents that contain their terms, as well as letting users insert/remove these terms from many documents at the same time and see the documents that contain specific terms;

redline DITA map compare—a new procedure permitting users to compare two maps by obtaining a PDF or HTML rendering of the compared content;

selectronic signature—the Collaborative Reviewer now includes an electronic signature functionality so users can affix an electronic signature to a completed document; and

full DITA 1.2 support—this new release of the DITA CMS fully supports the DITA 1.2 standard including keyref features (@keys attribute), which allow users to potentially expand their content reuse strategy.