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Subject: RE: [dita-busdocs] topics of interest on today's TC call
Thanks Bruce. These are very interesting. While
we have tried to keep the TC apprised of our work, the release of 1.2 has occupied
people’s mind share. I believe that the whitepaper I spoke about will
provide them with a concise understanding of where we stand and why. I’ll
keep an eye on the schedule for our presentation. Thank you for sharing this information. Ann From: Bruce Nevin
(bnevin) [mailto:bnevin@cisco.com] 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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