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Subject: DITA Specification Submitted for OASIS Standard
The OASIS DITA Technical Committee is pleased to provide the following
documentation with its submission of the Committee Draft of the DITA 1.0
Specification for Member Approval as an OASIS Standard.
1. A formal specification that is a valid member of its type, together
with appropriate documentation for the specification, both of which must be
written using approved OASIS templates
The DITA 1.0 DTD and Schema files are provided in zipped directories
that reflect hierarchical naming considerations that are unique to the
DITA design, within the OASIS naming convention guidelines.
A consolidated zip file with all specifications, DTDs, and Schemas is
publicly available from:
- http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/download.php/12091/cd2.zip
2. A clear English-language summary of the specification:
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) specification defines
both a) a set of document types for authoring and organizing topic-oriented
information; and b) a set of mechanisms for combining and extending
document types using a process called specialization.
The specification consists of:
* The DTDs and schemas that define DITA markup for the base DITA
document types, as well as catalog files
* The language reference that provides explanations for each element in
the base DITA document types
* This document, which comes in three parts:
- an introduction, which provides background concepts and an
overview of the architecture
- the DITA markup specification, which provides an overview of
DITA's base document types
- the DITA specialization specification, which provides details
of the mechanisms DITA provides for defining and extending DITA
document types.
3. A statement regarding the relationship of this specification to
similar work of other OASIS TCs or other standards developing
organizations:
The work of the OASIS DocBook TC is related in the documentation realm
to DITA, however the goals and design of DITA provide different
capabilities for potentially wider user communities. To our knowledge,
this specification has no relationship to any other work of other OASIS
TCs or other standards developing organizations.
4. Certification by at least three OASIS member organizations that they
are successfully using the specification consistently with the OASIS IPR
Policy:
(a) Arbortext using DITA 1.0 specification:
- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200503/msg00085.html
(b) BMC attestation of use of DITA V1.0:
- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200503/msg00088.html
(c) IBM attestation of use of DITA V1.0:
- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200503/msg00096.html
(d) [Nokia] DITA attestation:
- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200503/msg00101.html
(e) Innodata-Isogen DITA attestation:
- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200503/msg00102.html
5. An account of each of the comments/issues raised during the public
review period, along with its resolution:
Available from
- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200504/msg00000.html
6. An account of and results of the voting to approve the approve the
specification as a Committee Draft:
(a) Vote to affirm approval of the current specification set as a
committee draft:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/ballot.php?id=719
- 20 Yes, 0 No, 6 Abstain (Out of 26). Two-thirds vote (18) required
for passage.
(b) Vote to submit current specification set to OASIS for standardization.
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/ballot.php?id=720
- 20 Yes, 0 No, 6 Abstain (Out of 26). Simple majority required for
passage.
7. An account of or pointer to votes and comments received in any
earlier attempts to standardize substantially the same specification,
together with the originating TC's response to each comment;
This specification has not previously been submitted to OASIS
for standardization.
8. A pointer to the publicly visible comments archive for the
originating TC;
- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-comment/
9. A statement from the chair of the TC certifying that all members of
the TC have been provided with a copy of the OASIS IPR Policy:
Notice published to the list on March 15, 2005:
- http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita/200503/msg00082.html
10. Optionally, a pointer to any minority reports submitted by one or
more TC members who did not vote in favor of approving the Committee Draft,
or certification by the chair that no minority reports exist.
No such report exists.
Regards,
--
Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com>
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect
11501 Burnet Rd., MS 9037D018, Austin TX 78758
Ph. 512-838-8550 (T/L 678-8550)
"Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge?
Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
--T.S. Eliot
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