Blackberry – Stick to Your DITA Standards
BlackBerry’s Enterprise Docs team has been using DITA to produce software documentation for over 16 years. Over time, they have developed unique rules and standards for using DITA.
They have done a lot to help writers learn and integrate these rules into their daily authoring, including dedicated review cycles with a technical editor, extensive training sessions, and documenting authoring guidelines. Despite these resources, mistakes and oversights can always slip through the cracks. The impact of this can be as small as missing alt text on an image or as large as a failed DITA output. A question they have always struggled with – How can they ensure that their writers will follow their team’s unique DITA rules and standards? The answer? Schematron.
View this session to explore the basics of Schematron and how you can use it to enforce your unique DITA authoring standards.
Key takeaways
- Learn what Schematron is and why it is valuable to DITA authors
- Learn the basics of how to construct Schematron rules
- See examples of Schematron rules that BlackBerry has implemented
- See a demo of how Schematron validation works in the AEM Guides topic editor