The QA Plugin is awesome. No, really! But that may be hard to believe until you’ve seen one of the reports (displays best in FireFox). After the “more” is a breakdown of the report, which now includes the word counts and an element count pie chart, in addition to the terminology and markup checks.

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If you have more than one writer on your team (and perhaps if you have exactly one), enforcing terminology, tagging, and other standards can be challenging. We wanted an easy way to catch simple issues, like lists nested inside paragraphs and the use of out-of-date console names. We also wanted to verify, across a large document set, that certain DITA attributes were used correctly in order to make our output as reliable as possible. We started with a PowerShell script written by Ben Colborn, which included a large number of xpath-based quality assurance checks. We’ve since ported those checks into an open toolkit plugin, and we are happy to say we can now share it here on sourceforge.

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