DITA is the hottest thing to have hit the technical publishing world in a long time. With its topic-based approach to authoring, DITA frees you from the need to think in terms of "books", and lets you focus on the underlying information. This new industry whitepaper from Flatirons Solutions and Mark Logic defines a new publishing paradigm, which we will call dynamic content delivery.

by Don Day, Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
IBM Lead DITA Architect

The OASIS DITA standard:
The current standard is at DITA 1.0.  During 2006, committee work was focused on developing the proposed DITA 1.1 features (see "Roadmap for DITA development" at http://wiki.oasis-open.org/dita/Roadmap_for_DITA_development). Just last month, the committee released a Public Review draft for DITA 1.1, which is expected to be approved later this year.