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I like JoAnn’s suggestion of a readable overview to the functionality followed by the technical details. Unless someone writes a comparable document in “user speak” DITA remains inaccessible. This could be a job of the greater community and certainly offers book opportunities, but a short overview ...

Here, here! Agree completely. We are the folks who have to make DITA a reality in organizations and I know for myself I spend an inordinate amount of time explaining things. Most of the time we interpret the spec (functionality of DITA) for them in plain language and help them to understand ...

I get Eliot's point as well, but I think we need to think about it in the way that authors think about content. The concepts of single sourcing preceded DITA and formed the basis for the concepts of DITA. This is especially important as we move beyond Tech Docs, where the concepts of linking are ...