Delta between DITA 1.0 and DITA 1,1

[Kristen J Eberlein <kjeberle@us.ibm.com>]

Someone on last Monday's call asked about the delta between DITA 1.0 to DITA 1,1. I just came across a PDF of a presentation that Don Day gave at the DITA 2006 conference, and it contained the following information:

DITA 1.1 has two major themes:
•Book deliverables

•Converged metadata within the bookmap
•Booklist function for generating collections of content
•Transitional text in the bookmap
•Indexing (See, See Also; sort order; page range)
•Image scaling expanded specification
•Retrofits for improved translation handling

•Data extensibility

•Extensible metadata attributes
•Universality of “universal”attributes
•<data> element as archetype for structured metadata, content
•<unknown> element for foreign content vocabularies such as MathML and SVG


Best regards, Kris Kristen James Eberlein Advisory Information Developer IBM Internet Security Systems (919) 682-2290 kjeberle@us.ibm.com