LWDITA and DITA: Items of interest

[Kristen James Eberlein <kris@eberleinconsulting.com>]

Carlos, we'd be delighted to have you on the TC call 1 November. Here is the sort of info that we need:

• Drivers for LWDITA
• Planned element and attribute set, including any new elements and attributes
• Grammar files: Are they planned to be delivered as DTDs? RNG? XSD?
  
• Specialization model, especially plans for developing specializations from a DITA topic that contains the necessary metadata
  
• Tooling planned to develop grammar files from a LWDITA topic template:
• Is this planned to be a reference implementation?
• What sort of grammar files will be produced: DTD, XSD, or RNG?
• Will the generated grammar files be modular or monolithic?
• Will the generated grammar files contain specialization hierarchy?
  

TC members, please add to this list if there are other items that you think important.

If there are materials for which you want screen sharing, please send me them before the call so that I can present them if you are unable to share your screen.

Regarding the drivers, since there will be a subcommittee meeting on 31 October, perhaps subcommittee members can consider the same questions that I posed to the TC:

• How would you rank these different drivers? Are some more important to you than others?
• Do you think that Lightweight DITA might be delivered in phases? If so, what would you want to see first?
• Do you think that some of these drivers affect each other? Or be in conflict with each other? If so, how can that be mitigated?

Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)

On 10/18/2016 8:30 PM, Carlos Evia wrote:

Kris and all,

I think the LwDITA SC is already working on all of these identified drivers. Of course, some are (way) more advanced than others.

Would it help if I join the main TC call 11/01 and update on our work and plans? I can have my students work on the projects (surprise: they will be working on LwDITA topics that day) while I join the call.

Best,

Carlos

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Carlos Evia, Ph.D.

Director of Professional and Technical Writing

Associate Professor of Technical Communication

Department of English

Center for Human-Computer Interaction

Virginia Tech

Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112

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On Tue, Oct 18, 2016 at 6:18 PM, Kristen James Eberlein <kris@eberleinconsulting.com> wrote:

And a critical addition:

• Expanding DITA into new markets: Web developments and ones that we don't know of yet
  

Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)

On 10/18/2016 5:57 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote:

We mentioned the following drivers on the DITA TC call today:

• Desire for a subset of full DITA that is less complex, simpler to author, and cheaper/easier to build tools to support
• Easier specialization
• Tooling to make easier specialization possible
  
• Ability to have HTML and Markdown versions to enable contribution from authors who want to author in that format
• Commitment to interoperability; Lightweight DITA must be able to be absorbed by full DITA. (The reverse is not the case.)
• Current plans for Lightweight DITA to have elements and attributes that are not available in DITA 1.3, such as <video>, <audio>, @specmodel and more
  

Am I missing any of the key points that were raised? I think I am ...

I'd encourage DITA TC voting members to think about the following:

• How would you rank these different drivers? Are some more important to you than others?
• Do you think that Lightweight DITA might be delivered in phases? If so, what would you want to see first?
• Do you think that some of these drivers affect each other? Or be in conflict with each other? If so, how can that be mitigated?

How can we best promote discussion on the DITA TC about Lightweight DITA and where the subcommittee is currently at?

• Regular item on the agenda
• Survey
• Other thoughts?

For folks who were on today's call but silent, I'd be happy to have calls with you.

Cc'd to the Lightweight DITA subcommittee.

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Best,
Kris

Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)

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