More info about DITA

[Andrew Lucchesi]

My previous post did not provide any details about DITA, so here is an 
explanation: 

DITA stands for Darwin Information Typing Architecture. 
 
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based, 
end-to-end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical 
information. This architecture consists of a set of design principles for 
creating "information-typed" modules at a topic level and for using that 
content in delivery modes such as online help and product support portals 
on the Web.

At the heart of DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture), 
representing the generic building block of a topic-oriented information 
architecture, is an XML document type definition (DTD) called "the topic 
DTD." The extensible architecture, however, is the defining part of this 
design for technical information; the topic DTD, or any schema based on 
it, is just an instantiation of the design principles of the architecture.

Links with more information: 

http://xml.coverpages.org/dita.html   Cover page: DITA page

http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita/   OASIS DITA Technical 
Committee

http://dita-ot.sourceforge.net/   DITA Open Toolkit

http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/   Yahoo! Group: dita-users

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