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An XML architecture for technical documentation: DITA

Don Day, Erik Hennum, John Hunt, Michael Priestley, David Schell and Nancy Harrison have written an article on the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). To quote:

DITA is an architecture for creating topic-oriented, information-typed content that can be reused and single-sourced in a variety of ways. It is also an architecture for creating new information types and describing new information domains, allowing groups to create very specific, targeted document type definitions using a process called specialization, while at the same time reusing common output transforms and design rules. We discuss several methods that can be used to extend DITA's basic topic types.

[Thanks to InfoDesign.]

Posted by jamesr on November 26, 2004 12:00 PM
Categories: Content management, XML