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Subject: Re: [dita] Potential new DITA interest area


Forwarding to the list since I noticed that my response went only to Robert ...

From: Kristen Eberlein 
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 12:25 PM
To: 'Robert D Anderson'
Subject: RE: [dita] Potential new DITA interest area

I think this would be a great idea; I've been asked several times over the past week about DITA specializations to work with .NET APIs. 

I don't have bandwidth to be involved with another subcommittee, but will forward this e-mail chain to folks I've been talking to.

Additionally, I can see if I can get a sense of how frequently Trisoft customers have built plug-ins to work with APIs.

Best regards,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein l DITA Architect and Technical Specialist l SDL Structured Content Technologies Division l (t) + 1 (919) 682-2290 l keberlein@sdl.com
 
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-----Original Message-----
From: Robert D Anderson [mailto:robander@us.ibm.com] 
Sent: Monday, October 11, 2010 9:45 AM
To: dita
Subject: [dita] Potential new DITA interest area


Hello,

We've got a lot of people inside IBM using DITA specializations to mix API
information with other documentation. These specializations have been
released through the DITA Open Toolkit, as a core set of generic API
document types, along with more specialized types specifically for Java.
Nokia recently released an additional set of specializations for C++ based
on the same core set of API modules, and I've gotten a lot of queries about
extending them for other languages.

Is there interest from anybody else on the TC in making these document
types a little more formal? For example, we could start up something like a
"DITA for Programmers" subcommittee that at least works on the core API
Document types, and potentially the extensions into some language specific
modules.  Eventually, I would hope that any approved API modules like this
could be released as independent packages - that is, I would not expect
them to be part of the eventual DITA 1.3 specification itself.

Thanks -

Robert D Anderson
IBM Authoring Tools Development
Chief Architect, DITA Open Toolkit


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