A‑Jour Net
DITA & Component Content Management Services

Core competencies

Technology and methods expertise

A‑Jour Net brings deep, hands‑on experience across the tools and technologies required to design, enhance, and maintain modern DITA‑based content ecosystems.

DITA models & authoring

DTD / XML Schema & DITA modeling

DTD / XML Schema

  • DITA 1.2 / 1.3.
  • DocBook.
  • Topic‑based proprietary XML models.

DITA authoring environments

  • Oxygen XML tools and framework.
  • Arbortext Editor.
  • Schematron and XPath rule sets.
  • CSS, XSL, FOSI‑based formatting.

Rendition & output

XML / XSL rendition environments

XSL & DITA‑OT

  • XSL and XSLT pipelines.
  • XSL‑FO.
  • DITA‑OT 2.x / 3.x.
  • DITA4Publishers.

Output tools & formats

  • Antenna House XSL Formatter, PDF‑ML, localization.
  • Adobe Acrobat / Distiller.
  • XHTML5 and help systems.

Application development

Application development & customization

Java / J2EE

  • Spring framework, including Boot and Batch.
  • Web application development with Spring MVC.
  • Swing / AWT desktop applications.

C# and .NET

  • Windows application development with .NET.

Scripting & integration

  • Python 2.x / 3.x.
  • JavaScript.
  • ACL.
  • VB.NET.

Taxonomy & data

Taxonomy and data management

Platforms & stores

  • MarkLogic Semaphore and related tooling.
  • PostgreSQL.
  • Microsoft Access.

Semantic technologies

  • SPARQL query language for RDF.

Management & delivery

Content management & delivery platforms

Content management

  • RWS Tridion Docs.
  • Vasont.
  • GitLab (for content and configuration management).

Dynamic delivery

  • RWS Dynamic Experience Delivery (DXD).
  • Elastic Search.
  • Open Search.
  • Zoomin.

Ways of working

Agile development methodologies

Since 2012 A‑Jour Net has operated using Agile development methodologies, with a focus on DITA content architectures and CCM implementations.

  • SCRUM.
  • Extreme Programming (XP).
  • Pair Programming.

This includes experience in product ownership, backlog management, sprint planning, and aligning content architecture work with broader product engineering and platform roadmaps.