Dita Ot Developer / Dita Content Strategist

United Kingdom, United Kingdom

Job Description

Role: DITA OT Developer / DITA Content Strategist
Employment: Permanent
Location: Europe/UK - Remote
Core DITA & XML Skills

  • DITA authoring concepts: topics, maps, specialization, constraints, reuse strategies.
  • XML fundamentals: schemas (DTD, XSD), namespaces, validation.
  • XSLT & XPath: customizing and writing transformations for DITA-OT outputs.
  • DITA-OT plugins: creating and maintaining custom plugins for specialized publishing needs.
  • DITA specialization: extending or restricting base DITA for domain-specific needs.
Programming & Markup
  • Java & Ant: understanding DITA-OT's build framework, writing extensions.
  • HTML5 & CSS3: styling web outputs.
  • Regular expressions: text manipulation and validation tasks.
Publishing & Output Customization
  • PDF publishing: PDF2 plugin, XSL-FO, or alternative PDF processors (Antenna House, RenderX, FOP).
  • HTML publishing: customizing HTML5, CHM, WebHelp, or site outputs.
  • Multi-channel publishing: knowledge of EPUB, Eclipse Help, Markdown, or custom outputs.
Tools & Environment
  • DITA authoring tools: Oxygen XML Author/Editor, FrameMaker, Arbortext.
  • DITA-OT build management: command line, Ant scripts, Gradle tasks.
  • Source control: Git, SVN, or similar for managing content and customizations.
  • Continuous Integration (CI/CD): integrating DITA-OT builds with Jenkins, Azure DevOps, GitHub Actions, etc.
Quality & Testing
  • DITA content validation: ensuring content adheres to DITA rules and constraints.
  • Unit testing for transformations: validating XSLT and plugin changes.
  • Performance optimization: tuning builds for large document sets.

Skills Required

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Job Detail

  • Job Id
    JD4601701
  • Industry
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  • Total Positions
    1
  • Job Type:
    Full Time
  • Salary:
    Not mentioned
  • Employment Status
    Full Time
  • Job Location
    United Kingdom, United Kingdom
  • Education
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