draft proposal for XML 2006

[Michael Priestley <mpriestl@ca.ibm.com>]

Hope to discuss during the call

Play well with others: DITA. DocBook,
and ODF aim for interoperability
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Members of the OASIS TCs for DITA, DocBook,
and ODF are collaborating on improved interoperability between document-oriented
OASIS standards. The starting point for the discussion is the development
of an interoperability scenario to show why and how content might be reused
across formats. 

The presentation will describe the scenario,
discuss the steps involved in enabling reuse across formats, and discuss
the plan for continuing work in the 
area, including:
- development of an interoperability
demo based on the scenario, including samples and proof-of-concept transforms
- development of reliable transforms
between the formats
- preservation of semantic information
across transformations to enable round-tripping of content

For each standard, the presentation
will describe:
- current support for interoperability
- defining mappings to other standards
- applying constraints to limit content
to interoperable subsets
- preserving migrated semantics for
round-tripping
- planned support for interoperability

Michael Priestley
IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead
mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
http://dita.xml.org/blog/25