Re: [dita] Sound bite for the OASIS press release

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

How about the following:

“DITA is more than flexible, it’s specializable,” said Kristen Eberlein, chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. “The standard is unique; it enables practitioners to specialize from existing elements in order to increase the semantic granularity. For example, consider a very simple document. A section element can be specialized to represent more specific types of sections such as “Introduction,” “Main point,” and “Conclusion”; this enables more precise semantic searching and better guidance for authors.”

“Done correctly”, Eberlein continued, “Output processors always will understand the specialization hierarchy – a section is always a section, after all – and be able to apply general processing transformations. This is unique to DITA, and the ensuing reuse possibilities allow great cost sharing and cost reductions.”

Best,
Kris

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

On 1/14/2016 1:15 PM, Kristen James Eberlein wrote:

Carol Geyer has sent me a draft press release. It includes the following paragraph:

“DITA is more than flexible, it’s specializable,” said Kristen Eberlein, chair of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee. “The standard allows specific semantics to be introduced for specific purposes without increasing the size of other XML grammar files.” <PLEASE EDIT LIBERALLY>

I think we can improve this. Thoughts?

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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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