RE: [dita-adoption] Fwd: DITA: It's Just XML

I think this post substantiates 
my point regarding DITA specialization for the SWOT analysis.  As you may 
know, Eliot is one of the handful SGML experts and originators of SGML 
Architecture Forms.  As such, it should come as no surprise that he is 
excited about the realization of his original design in DITA 
specialization.  Here is a quote from the Cover Pages: DITA (http://xml.coverpages.org/dita.html#relatedArchForms):

  
From the section 'Architectural context' in 
  Michael Priestley's "Specializing Information Types" article: "In SGML, 
  architectural forms are a classic way to provide mappings from one document 
  type to another. Specialization is an architectural-forms-like solution to a 
  more constrained problem: providing mappings from a more specific topic type 
  to a more general topic type. Because the specific topic type is developed 
  with the general topic type in mind, specialization can ignore many of the 
  thornier problems that architectural forms address. This constrained domain 
  makes specialization processes relatively easy to implement and maintain. 
  Specialization also provides support for multi-level or hierarchical 
  specializations, which allow more general topic types to serve as the common 
  denominator for different specialized types..."

Regards,

Scott Tsao $BAbThT"(B
Information 
Architect - Associate Technical Fellow
The Boeing Company 

-----Original Message-----
From: David J. B. Hollis 
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[dita-adoption] Fwd: DITA: It's Just XML

This is also very relevant to 
the SWOT Analysis.

David

> Date: 3 November 2008 15:46:01 
GMT
> Subject: DITA: It's Just XML
> Source: DITA XML.org - Online 
community for the Darwin Information
> Typing Architecture OASIS 
Standard
> Author: drmacro
>
> Over on the Really Strategies 
blog I've posted about the fact that
> DITA, while it has lots  of 
cool features that get a lot of us very
> excited, DITA can also be 
applied to the simplest applications.
> Because DITA, by dint of its 
unique features as a standard XML
> architecture, has the lowest possible 
cost of both initial
> implementation and long-term ownership, this makes 
DITA a compelling 
> business choice simply because it saves money 
and time relative to
> almost any other alternative you might 
choose.

http://dita.xml.org/blog/dita-its-just-xml

http://blog.reallysi.com/2008/11/dita-its-just-xml.html