OASIS, the international e-business standards consortium, announced that its members approved the DITA version 1.0 as an OASIS Standard, a status that signifies the highest level of ratification. Arbortext, BMC Software, IBM, Idiom, Innodata Isogen, Intel, Nokia, Oracle, Sun Microsystems, the U.S. Department of Defense, and others participated in defining this XML architecture for publishing.