DITA 1.2 specification documents

["Ogden, Jeff" <jogden@ptc.com>]

Here is the list of planned DITA 1.2 specification documents as of the last time we talked about this.

 

a)       DITA 1.2 Base Architectural Specification (introduction, topic, map, and metadata markup, processing including delayed resolution, specialization including constraints).

b)       DITA 1.2 Base Language Reference (map, topic, metadata including delayed resolution, map group domain).

c)       DITA 1.2 Utility Domain Specializations Architecture and Language Reference (utilities, highlighting, and hazard statement domains).

d)       DITA 1.2 xNAL Domain Specializations Architecture and Language Reference.

e)       DITA 1.2 Technical Content Architecture and Language Reference (concept, task, reference, glossary).

f)         DITA 1.2 Software, Programming, and User Interface Domains Specializations Architecture and Language Reference.

g)       DITA 1.2 Book Architecture and Language Reference (bookmap).

h)       DITA 1.2 Learning and Training Content Architecture and Language Reference.

i)         DITA 1.2 Machine Industry Architecture and Language Reference.

j)         DITA 1.2 Semantic Linking, Controlled Values, and Taxonomies Architecture and Language Reference.

k)        DITA 1.2 Processing Guidelines and Examples (non-normative).

 

Item (e) might or might not be renamed.

 

Item (f) might or might not have some doctype shells added.

 

I would still like to create item (k), but suspect that we should drop it from the DITA 1.2 work and do it later as a “best practice” or similar document that is non-normative and outside of the DITA 1.2 Specification.

 

Given recent discussions it is possible that we may want to combine some of these items, but exactly how isn’t clear to me at this point.

    -Jeff