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Subject: Re: [dita-adoption] Delta between DITA 1.0 and DITA 1,1
Hindsight always allows for better perspective. An improved way of looking at the DITA 1.1 deltas would be this: DITA 1.1 has two major themes: • Support for book-like deliverables: • New <bookmap> specialization from ditamap: • improves on the original bookmap proposal in DITA Open Toolkit's early editions • provides explicit organization for book-oriented production needs • Converged metadata within the bookmap: • all book metadata (<bookmeta>) can be contained within the bookmap • replaces former "bkinfo" separate file • New XNAL domain specialization to represent interoperable person/location metadata • New <booklist> placeholder for generated collections of content, such as: • ToC, figure and table lists, glossary list, endnotes, and so forth • New <glossentry> topic type specialization and its associated elements • Expanded indexing elements (See, See Also; sort order; page range) • Expanded content for <shortdesc> (new <abstract> element) • Enablement for transitional text and limited nesting in the bookmap • Expanded specification for image scaling • Support for data extensibility (the basis for some of the above new features): • Extensible metadata attributes • Universality of “universal”attributes • Addition of new "dir" attribute to improve localization of content • <data> and <data-about> elements as archetypes for structured metadata • <foreign> element for foreign content vocabularies such as MathML and SVG • <unknown> element to support arbitrary embedded markup • <index-base> element to support future indexing extensions by specialization In addition, the DITAVAL DTD was introduced to provide standard processing setup for flagging and filtering content. Regards, -- Don Day Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee Architect, Lightweight DITA Publishing Solutions Email: dond@us.ibm.com 11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758 Phone: +1 512-244-2868 (home office) "Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?" --T.S. Eliot From: Kristen J Eberlein/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS To: dita-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org Date: 11/01/2008 11:41 AM Subject: [dita-adoption] Delta between DITA 1.0 and DITA 1,1 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, (Embedded image moved to file: pic20879.jpg) Kris Kristen James Eberlein Advisory Information Developer IBM Internet Security Systems (919) 682-2290 kjeberle@us.ibm.com
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