Beginning in 2005, the Food & Drug Administration began passing Structured Product Labeling (SPL) rulings that require pharmaceutical manufacturers to submit drug product labels in XML. Most recently, the FDA issued SPL R4, a revision to SPL that mandates that starting June 1, 2009, all product label content must be submitted by pharmaceutical companies electronically in XML.

In this presentation, Seth Park shows examples of use cases for mashup in real-world scenarios being defined by the Semiconductor Information Design Subcommittee (SIDSC) as they discover the relationship between the SIDSC specialization and pre-existing industry standard XML formats. Many people have expressed an interest in using DITA as part of a distributed information architecture. This interest comes from two primary use cases:

Get: DITA content needs data from non-DITA data sources ("DITA as primary architecture")

Feature article produced by the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee. Authored by Sowmya Kannan, Sun Microsystems. Published 21 September 2009. Note that the offical version of this document is the PDF file that is located in the document repository for the OASIS DITA Adoption Committee. Also note that the DITA source for this article and its code examples is available in a ZIP file that you can download from the bottom of this page.

Presentation by Mike Iantosca (IBM) at the 27 May 2009 meeting of the RTP DITA Users' Group. Jointly sponsored with the Boston DITA User Group.

Presentation at the 22 April 2009 meeting of the RTP DITA Users' Group by Tom Ed White, Tekelec.

Xquery is a powerful query language designed specifically for XML content. It can be used for querying, processing, manipulation, and transformation of xml content. I will demonstrate how Xquery can be used to add to the feature set of the Dita Open Toolkit. I also will introduce three of the basic statements that the language uses to manipulate content.