XML Based Docs As Code – Combining DITA XML With GitHub and Continous Delivery

  • Tutorial
  • Technical Authoring
  • 05. November
  • 03:30 PM (CET) - 04:30 PM (CET)
  • Channel D
  • finished
  • Mr Radu Coravu

    Mr Radu Coravu

    • Oxygen XML Editor (Syncro Soft)

Contents

We'll look into building a functional technical documentation project using DITA XML as content, GitHub for storage and collaboration and Netlify for continuous delivery.

As an overview we'll learn how to use GitHub to collaborate on an XML based technical documentation project and how to use continuous delivery to automate publishing to various output formats like HTML, PDF or EPUB.

Takeaways

You will learn how to use GItHub to set up and start working on a technical documentation project. We'll discuss the structure of a DITA XML based technical documentation solution and we will use continuous delivery to publish the content.

Prior knowledge

Interest in technical documentation, knowledge of English.

Speaker

Mr Radu Coravu

Mr Radu Coravu

  • Oxygen XML Editor (Syncro Soft)
Biography

Radu Coravu ist ein DITA-XML-Experte, der an oXygen XML Editor arbeitet. In den letzten Jahren lag sein Hauptaugenmerk auf der Entwicklung der visuellen XML Author-Bearbeitungsumgebung und der spezifischen DITA-Unterstützung von oXygen, kombiniert mit der Arbeit am Oxygen AI Positron Add-on, das spezifische KI-Funktionalität zum Bearbeiten von DITA-XML-Inhalten bietet.
Er bietet Unterstützung für komplexe Integrationen und hilft, das Produkt in die richtige Richtung zu lenken, alles mit etwas Entwicklungsarbeit nebenbei.

Radu Coravu is a DITA XML expert working on oXygen XML Editor. During the last years, his main focus has been on the development of the visual XML Author editing environment and the DITA-specific support provided by oXygen, combined with working on the Oxygen AI Positron add-on which adds specific AI functionality for editing DITA XML content. 
He provides support for complex integrations and helps steer the product in the right direction, all this with some development on the side.