OASIS document standards interop discussion list and strawman reusescenario

[Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com>]

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The strawman scenario:

- govt worker begins drafting a policy note in ODF
about the use of personal data received via email 
- govt worker pulls in the text of the relevant statute, which is in a
DITA specialization 
- govt worker pulls in the legal disclaimer which must now be included
in every government email reply, from a different DITA specialization 
- govt worker pulls in the instructions on how to include the text of the
disclaimer in emails, from documentation of the email software written
in DocBook 

- technical author 1, using DITA, creates an internal
policy and procedures website 
- and pulls in text from the DocBook email software documentation 
- and pulls in the legal text from a DITA specialization 
- and pulls in the relevant section of the policy note, written in ODF

- technical author 2, using DocBook, creates a customized version of the
email software documentation 
- and pulls in portions of the procedures web site, in the form of DITA
topics and ODF policy notes 

- as the legal disclaimer changes, or the policy changes, or the email
software changes, or the statute itself changes, all the references can
be updated simply by rebuilding/republishing the content, since all reuse
is by reference not by copy-and-paste 

Michael Priestley
IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25