Members of the OASIS DITA Technical Committee have released an approved Committee Specification of the DITA 1.1 specification for consideration as an OASIS Standard. Statements of use have been provided by IBM, JustSystems (XMetaL), Flatirons Solutions, PTC-Arbortext, and Comtech Services, Inc.
Version 1.1 of DITA is made up of four distinct units: an architectural specification, a language specification, and the DTD and Schema implementations of the language. Additional functionality in DITA 1.1:
The work of the OASIS DocBook TC and the OASIS Open Document Format TC are related in the documentation realm to DITA, however the goals and design of DITA provide different capabilities for potentially wider user communities.
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CS01/overview/overview.html
Version 1.1 of DITA is made up of four distinct units: an architectural specification, a language specification, and the DTD and Schema implementations of the language. Additional functionality in DITA 1.1:
- 'Bookmap' specialization for encoding book-specific information in a DITA map;
- 'Glossentry' specialization for glossary entries;
- Indexing specializations for see, see-also, page ranges, and sort order;
- Improvements to graphic scaling capability;
- Improved short description flexibility through a new 'abstract' element;
- Specialization support for new global attributes, such as conditional processing attributes;
- Support for integration of existing content
- Structures through the 'foreign' element;
- Support for new kinds of information and structures through the 'data' and 'unknown' elements;
- Formalization of conditional processing profiles.
The work of the OASIS DocBook TC and the OASIS Open Document Format TC are related in the documentation realm to DITA, however the goals and design of DITA provide different capabilities for potentially wider user communities.
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/v1.1/CS01/overview/overview.html
