Well, its a few days late announce it here, but the Public Reveiw for the
long-anticipated DITA 1.1 proposal is was announced earlier this week.
Below is the official announcement letter. As Mary McRae of OASIS notes, "
Please feel free to distribute this announcement within your organization
and to other appropriate mail lists." That includes blogs, tech writing
listservs, newletters, or any other way that you wish to reach people whom
you feel would be interesting in looking at this material. The OASIS DITA
team is understandably pleased to have achieved this milestone--we believe
that the quality, cohesiveness, and depth of the specifications is a great
improvement over the 1.0 specs, as useful as those were. Do not be daunted
by the large page count in the language specification: much of that real
estate is due to attribute descriptions, which we've attempted to group
wherever possible to minimize duplication in print. Also, the new bookmap
specialization adds the most overall element pagecount to the Spec, yet
most of those new elements are exposed to writers only within the book
metadata (stuff that only book producers could love, right?) which you can
look past if you want to concentrate on the structure definitions alone.

This announcement makes it possible for early implementors to get started
with fair certainty on supporting some of the new elements in the spec. I
have brought up test documents in existing editors using the new 1.1 DTDs
and Schemas, for example, and know that it will be exciting to support how
authors can interact with the content through the new bookmap model, which
corresponds very nicely with other book-oriented standards. Cool stuff--I
hope you are as excited as I am about these materials now becoming
available for review and exploration!

Regards,
--
Don Day
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect
Email: dond@...
11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758
Phone: +1 512-838-8550
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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To OASIS members, Public Announce Lists:

The OASIS Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC has recently
approved the following specification set as a
Committee Draft and approved the package for public review:

DITA v1.1
- DITA Version 1.1 Specification Overview
- DITA Architectural Specification v1.1
- DITA Language Specification v1.1
- DTDs
- Schemas

The public review starts today, 5 March 2007, and ends 4 May 2007. This is
an open invitation to comment. We strongly
encourage feedback from potential users, developers and others, whether
OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving
the interoperability and quality of OASIS work. Please feel free to
distribute this announcement within your
organization and to other appropriate mail lists.

More non-normative information about the specification and the technical
committee may be found at the public home page
of the TC at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/tc_home.php?wg_abbrev=dita.

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the
OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be located
via the button marked "Send A Comment" at the top of that page, or directly
at
http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=dita.

Submitted comments (for this work as well as other works of that TC) are
publicly archived and can be viewed at
http://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-comment/. All comments submitted
to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback
License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same
obligations at least as the obligations of the TC
members.

The specification document and related files are available here:

DITA Version 1.1 Specification Overview
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/overview/overview.html

DITA Architectural Specification v1.1
XHTML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/archspec/archspec.html
PDF: http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/archspec/archspec.pdf
DITA: http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/archspec/archspec.zip

DITA Language Specification v1.1
XHTML: http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/langspec/ditaref-type.html
PDF: http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/langspec/ditaref-type.pdf
DITA: http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/langspec/langspec.zip

DTDs
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/dtd/ditadtd.zip

Schemas
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CD01/schema/ditaschema.zip


OASIS and the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC welcome your
comments.


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Mary P McRae
Manager of TC Administration, OASIS
email: mary.mcrae@...
web: www.oasis-open.org


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