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Subject: RE: [dita-lightweight-dita] My intro for the list
Hi everyone, I've been paying attention to DITA since we started working seriously on DITA support in XMetaL about 2005 or so, and representing JustSystems on the OASIS TC since around the beginning of work on DITA 1.3. I cringe a little when I think about when I started working with markup. Similar to Kris's experience (and probably everyone's), we've seen many XMetaL customers for whom the complexity of DITA is overkill. We've long thought about providing a "simplified DITA" user experience in XMetaL, but have not had the resources to bring anything to the market. Having a simplified standard DITA vocabulary out there would be a very useful thing for us and other vendors, not only to spare us the resources of developing our own, but so as to promote interoperability. I'll be participating to provide any expertise I can about authoring requirements, and to bring the work of the committee back to our R&D team for consideration. (Though I'll be off to somewhat of a quiet start due to being out of the office for possibly 7 of the next 9 Mondays!) From our perspective, there's a lot of "doesn't matter" what the spec might turn out to be -- whatever it is, I hope we'll enable authoring in it -- but I'll be watching for any situations where it actually does. mag From: dita-lightweight-dita@lists.oasis-open.org [mailto:dita-lightweight-dita@lists.oasis-open.org] On Behalf Of Michael Priestley As we discussed in the meeting yesterday, I'm kicking off a round of intros so we can all get to know each other a little better. |
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