Meeting today (Thursday) 2 PM ET

To discuss proposed text for Technical
Committee proposal. 

Callin details:

Conference ID:      
                     
         

8808200

Local Dial-in number:    
                     
    

416-343-2607

Toll-free Dial-in number:    
                     

1 866-245-5059

Current draft text:

One of the benefits that XML touted from early in it's
inception was that of platform independence. This independence greatly
helped in its widespread adoption, yet brought with it the unintended consequence
of a proliferation of standardized XML grammars. Document
standards such as DITA (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita),
DocBook http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/docbook),
and ODF (http://www.oasis-open.org/committees/office)
all address a similar need to mark up documentation in a platform-independent
format. Increasingly, organizations need to collaborate and share content
with other organizations. As a result, XML interoperability between these
standards is critical. These standards, however, have not been designed
with cross-standard interoperability in mind.The Doc Standards Interoperability
TC is intended to address the development and documentation of scenarios
for cross-standard content sharing; a specification for an interoperability
framework, including mappings from participating standard formats to the
framework; and requirements on participating standards to improve interoperability.

Michael Priestley

IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead



http://dita.xml.org/blog/25