Re: [dita-adoption] Delta between DITA 1.0 and DITA 1,1

[Don Day <dond@us.ibm.com>]

Hindsight always allows for better perspective. An improved way of looking
at the DITA 1.1 deltas would be this:

DITA 1.1 has two major themes:

• Support for book-like deliverables:
       • New <bookmap> specialization from ditamap:
         • improves on the original bookmap proposal in DITA Open Toolkit's
      early editions
         • provides explicit organization for book-oriented production
      needs
       • Converged metadata within the bookmap:
         • all book metadata (<bookmeta>) can be contained within the
      bookmap
         • replaces former "bkinfo" separate file
         • New XNAL domain specialization to represent interoperable
      person/location metadata
       • New <booklist> placeholder for generated collections of content,
      such as:
         • ToC, figure and table lists, glossary list, endnotes, and so
      forth
       • New <glossentry> topic type specialization and its associated
      elements
       • Expanded indexing elements (See, See Also; sort order; page range)
       • Expanded content for <shortdesc> (new <abstract> element)
       • Enablement for transitional text and limited nesting in the
      bookmap
       • Expanded specification for image scaling

• Support for data extensibility (the basis for some of the above new
features):
       • Extensible metadata attributes
       • Universality of “universal”attributes
         • Addition of new "dir" attribute to improve localization of
      content
       • <data> and <data-about> elements as archetypes for structured
      metadata
       • <foreign> element for foreign content vocabularies such as MathML
      and SVG
       • <unknown> element to support arbitrary embedded markup
       • <index-base> element to support future indexing extensions by
      specialization


In addition, the DITAVAL DTD was introduced to provide standard processing
setup for flagging and filtering content.



Regards,
--
Don Day
Chair, OASIS DITA Technical Committee
Architect, Lightweight DITA Publishing Solutions
Email: dond@us.ibm.com
11501 Burnet Rd. MS9033E015, Austin TX 78758
Phone: +1 512-244-2868 (home office)

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 Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?"
   --T.S. Eliot


                                                                                                         
  From:       Kristen J Eberlein/Raleigh/IBM@IBMUS                                                       
                                                                                                         
  To:         dita-adoption@lists.oasis-open.org                                                         
                                                                                                         
  Date:       11/01/2008 11:41 AM                                                                        
                                                                                                         
  Subject:    [dita-adoption] Delta between DITA 1.0 and DITA 1,1                                        
                                                                                                         





Someone on last Monday's call asked about the delta between DITA 1.0 to
DITA 1,1. I just came across a PDF of a presentation that Don Day gave at
the DITA 2006 conference, and it contained the following information:

DITA 1.1 has two major themes:
•Book deliverables
      •Converged metadata within the bookmap
      •Booklist function for generating collections of content
      •Transitional text in the bookmap
      •Indexing (See, See Also; sort order; page range)
      •Image scaling expanded specification
      •Retrofits for improved translation handling


•Data extensibility
      •Extensible metadata attributes
      •Universality of “universal”attributes
      •<data> element as archetype for structured metadata, content
      •<unknown> element for foreign content vocabularies such as MathML
      and SVG
                                                                           
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 Kristen James Eberlein                                                    
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