I work within a research and development department and we are looking at DITA/XML for reusing our information.  However, I don't feel that 'concept, task, and reference' are wide enough in scope to accomodate sections of information that regularly appear in all research reports (not just ours), such as: method, methodology, results, findings, recommendations, and others.

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Special thanks to all of the development partners and members of the Adobe Solutions Network contributing to the development of the FrameMaker 7.2  Application Packs for DITA. Backspace Ink, Bright Path Solutions, Document Jones, Group Wellesley, Integrated Technologies, Leximation, Promptt, Publishing Smarter, Scriptorium Publishing, Text Structure Consulting, and Silicon Publishing created the Application Pack for DITA—all overseen and coordinated by Silicon Publishing. Independent consultants Tassos Anastasiou, Tobias Reif, and Andrea Sharp also contributed their technical publishing knowledge and skills to developing the new FrameMaker Application Packs.

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