OASIS Members and other interested
parties,
OASIS is pleased to announce the
approval and publication of a new Committee Specification
by the members of the OASIS Darwin Information Typing
Architecture (DITA) TC:
Darwin Information Typing Architecture
(DITA) Version 1.3
OASIS Committee Specification 01
The Darwin Information Typing
Architecture (DITA) 1.3 specification defines both a) a
set of document types for authoring and organizing
topic-oriented information; and b) a set of mechanisms for
combining, extending, and constraining document types.
This release of DITA comes in three
parts called Editions, optimized for different audiences:
- The Base Edition is designed for
application developers and users who need only the most
fundamental pieces of the DITA framework.
- The Technical Content Edition
includes specializations usually used by technical
communicators.
- The All Inclusive Edition is the
largest edition. It is designed for implementers who want
all OASIS-approved specializations, as well as users who
develop learning and training materials.
The purpose of the OASIS DITA Technical
Committee (TC) is to define and maintain the Darwin
Information Typing Architecture (DITA) and to promote the
use of the architecture for creating standard information
types and domain-specific markup vocabularies.
DITA is specializable, which allows for
the introduction of specific semantics for specific
purposes without increasing the size of other XML grammar
files, and which allows the inheritance of shared design
and behavior and interchangeability with unspecialized
content.
The prose specifications and related
files are available here:
- Part 2: Technical Content Edition
- Part 3: All-Inclusive Edition
For your convenience, OASIS provides a
complete package of the prose specification and related
files in a ZIP distribution file. You can download the ZIP
file here:
Members of the OASIS Darwin Information
Typing Architecture (DITA) TC [1] approved this
specification by Special Majority Vote. The specification
had been released for public review as required by the TC
Process [2]. The vote to approve as a Committee
Specification passed [3], and the document is now
available online in the OASIS Library as referenced above.
Our congratulations to the TC on
achieving this milestone and our thanks to the reviewers
who provided feedback on the specification drafts to help
improve the quality of the work.
========== Additional references:
[1] OASIS Darwin Information Typing
Architecture (DITA) TC
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Administration
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