Note: There is a new version of the generator at DITA DTD Generator.

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ISO Schematron schema for DITA 1.1 and 1.2 that handles cases that DTDs or XML Schemas cannot control. The current implementation covers for example:

• nesting links inside links or titles
• deprecated attributes and attributes
• attributes not intended for author use.

Download latest version from GitHub. The schema is released under GNU Lesser General Public License.

Usage

The schema comes in two parts,

• dita-1.1.sch
• dita-1.2.sch

for different DITA versions. The schema has three phases:

specificationMandates

constraints in the DITA language specification prose

recommendations

constraints and recommendations in the DITA language specification prose

authoringRecommendations

recommendations for authors

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See GitHub downloads for latest releases.

Note: W3C has dealt with this in W3C Best Practices for XML Internationalization.

A DITA 1.1 domain specialization of ph element. The element naming and content models follows Ruby Annotation and Internationalization Tag Set, with the exception of

• omission of rbspan attribute from rt element.

See DTD files for details.

Download latest version.

Example

<!DOCTYPE i18n_concept
  PUBLIC "-//ELOVIRTA.COM//DTD DITA I18N Concept//EN"
         "i18n_concept.dtd"><i18n_concept id="ruby">
  <title>Ruby test</title>
  <conbody>
    <p>W3C Associate Chairman, <ruby xml:lang="ja">
        <rbc>
          <rb>斎</rb><rb>藤</rb><rb>信</rb><rb>男</rb>
        </rbc>
        <rtc>
          <rt>さい</rt><rt>とう</rt><rt>のぶ</rt><rt>お</rt>
        </rtc>
      </ruby></p>
  </conbody>
</i18n_concept>

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