You can specialize with LwDITA; it's just that there is no
special way to do it.
Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919 682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)
On 5/22/2017 10:59 AM, Carlos Evia
wrote:
I like it very much. I think we should at to the
core goals a list item talking about content sharing and
collaboration across formats, shouldn't we?
And should we have a disclaimer about specialization in the
second bulleted list?
Carlos
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Director of Professional and Technical Writing
Associate Professor of Technical Communication
Department of English
Center for Human-Computer Interaction
Virginia Tech
Blacksburg, VA 24061-0112
(540)200-8201
On Mon, May 22, 2017 at 10:24 AM,
Kristen James Eberlein <>
wrote:
Some comments interspersed ... Please note the
paragraph and list highlighted in blue. This is what we
need to agree on, flesh out, and ensure that drive
though the document,
2 Why
Lightweight DITA?
LwDITA is a
proposed specification for expressing simplified DITA
documents in XML, HTML5, and Markdown.
The
core goals of LwDITA are the following:
Provide a simpler DITA experience
Provide representations of LwDITA in
XML, HTML5, and Markdown that enable individuals to
author content in whatever representation is their
preference
Enable the growth of new tools and
applications that support LwDITA
LwDITA offers the core
features in the DITA standard:
Semantic tagging
Topic orientation
Content reuse
Conditional
publishing
Specialization
However, LwDITA
deliberately limits itself to generic structures that
are highly applicable across many industries. This
results in a much smaller standard in terms of elements,
attributes, and complexity.
This pragmatic design
has benefits for both small and large projects, as well
as new and existing DITA implementations. The learning
curve for LwDITA will be shorter. Implementing LwDITA
might involve less change management and so lower costs.
The ability for engineers to author in Markdown,
marketing writers in HTML5, and technical authors in
DITA will enable collaboration across divisional silos.
Of course, LwDITA users
who decide that they need a richer set of features and
functionality for their content can easily transition to
full DITA.
--
Best,
Kris
Kristen James Eberlein
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Principal consultant, Eberlein Consulting
www.eberleinconsulting.com
+1 919
682-2290; kriseberlein (skype)
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