RE: [dita] Chair's quote--pls review

["Bruce Nevin (bnevin)" <bnevin@cisco.com>]

Some rearrangement to consider:

Don Day, Chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee,
commented on new features in DITA 1.2, which "greatly
expand opportunities for using DITA as a content
standard. This new version incorporates community
suggestions that will help content owners to create
and deliver more kinds of information in more ways
than ever with DITA. The constraints mechanism can be
used to remove unneeded tags from the authoring
environment, depending on the type of document.
Managing and reusing content is more efficient with
indirect "keyref" addressing using user-defined keys,
and with extensions to conref, such as pushing updates
into already published content. DITA 1.2 provides
support for educational applications through the new
Learning and Training specialization, and the new Hazard
specialization supports labeling for product safety
applications. 

> -----Original Message-----
> From: Don Day [mailto:donday@bga.com] 
> Sent: Thursday, December 02, 2010 12:05 AM
> To: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: [dita] Chair's quote--pls review
> 
> Don Day, Chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee through 
> its previous works as well, reflected on the significance of 
> DITA 1.2: "This new version of DITA incorporates community 
> suggestions that create wider usage opportunities for DITA as 
> a content standard. The constraints mechanism should help 
> with 'tag fatigue' during DITA authoring. The indirect 
> addressing updates enable more efficient reuse and content 
> management policies. And the conref extensions enable end 
> user renditions that were not possible with DITA 1.1, such as 
> pushing updates into already published content. Those 
> features, along with the new Learning & Training and Hazard 
> specializations, aim to help content owners to create and 
> deliver more kinds of information in more ways than ever with DITA."
> 
> --
> Don
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