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Subject: topics of interest on today's TC call


Discussion of user and vendor comments at the CIDM conference about the growing complexity of DITA led to recognition of a need to identify a DITA subset for new users in 1.3. This intersects nicely with issues we have been addressing.
 
Michael reported that the meeting of OASIS Chairs discussed the desirability of a unified way of authoring, publishing, reviewing, etc. OASIS specifications. The ODF TC Chair (and some others) apparently had bad experiences editing XML some time in the past and seem closed to considering DITA now. (Defense of ODF is surely a factor too. The ODF Chair doesn't [or doesn't want to?] understand why random round-tripping between ODF and DITA is problematic.) Michael will offer to do a demo to OASIS chairs of the system used in IBM for specifications. There was talk of establishing a subcommittee for this. I mentioned to Don that specifications are among the types of documents that the BusDocs SC have researched, and that at the least it should be considered in the larger context of the framework for business documents that we have been working on, and presumably will report on in 6 weeks or so when our turn comes up. (The sequence for liaison reports is maintained at http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/FrontPage.)
 
The TC is too unaware of what we have been doing, so they are unable to take it into consideration.
 
    /Bruce
 
 


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