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Subject: RE: DITA for Tech Standards activity
Hi Robert, I'm pleased to see this taking off. I would like to participate. In my mind, this SC needs to do the following: 1. Get a formal content and style definition from OASIS (We had issues with this while working on the DITA 1.2 spec, since they have things scattered over several documents plus a lot of it is simply underspecified or unspecified...) 2. Create a map specialization to capture the structure of the OASIS spec plus the metadata that's required. 3. Possibly create topic specializations if we need this (we may even choose to have a specialized topic to represent the cover page). 4. Develop a DITA-OT plug-in for each OASIS output required (I think all we need is PDF and XHTML or HTML5) 5. Write documentation/tutorials and package it all up. Follow-on projects of this SC would be to do the same for other OASIS artifacts, such as white papers (we have a plug-in that's close at the DITA Adoption TC, but we have not documented it yet and I suspect there's room for improvement and tweaking). I have joined the SC. Thanks for driving this! Gershon -----Original Message----- From: Robert D Anderson [mailto:robander@us.ibm.com] Sent: Tuesday, July 27, 2010 6:39 PM To: dita-techstds@lists.oasis-open.org Subject: DITA for Tech Standards activity Hi everybody, I'm sending this to the DITA for Tech Standards list, as well as (by BCC) to several people that may not be on that list but have expressed interest. As most of you know, one roadblock to using DITA for OASIS standards is that there's no clearly defined way right now to encode some required information. That info includes most of the information on the cover page, as well as a couple of other items like how to recognize appendix sections. Seth Park and I have signed up to work on this, but would like to get input from this group on the work as we go. The most urgent goal is to get a defined, generic way to mark up an OASIS spec, which allows us to mark up the DITA specification itself but can also cover other OASIS specifications. If possible, it should also cover other specifications such as those from W3C, but in my opinion that could also be a follow-on activity. Thoughts? I'll also encourage those not on the SC list already to join up here (as a member or observer); that's the only way that you'll be able to track future discussion: http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita-techstds Thanks - Robert D Anderson IBM Authoring Tools Development Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit
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