Has anyone considered using DITA for Policies and Procedures / Standard Operating Procedures? They are also a collection of Concept (policies) Steps (Procedures) and Reference, including choice tables, notes and all the rest. I have a possible contract for a large engineering company in several locations, which probably have a few individual procedures and lots of common ones.

While we’re in this area, I have long thought that some sort of XML could be used to store and generate environmental compliancy documentation, where each control instance, i.e. Air, Water, Emergency, etc. wants the same information in different formats. This could involve something like tables for information and standard ditamaps, stylesheets and ants to generate the particular documents.

Bonnie Yelverton