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OASIS document standards interop discussion list and strawman reusescenario

From: Michael Priestley
To: [email protected]
Date: Fri, 28 Apr 2006 16:44:00 -0000

To subscribe: [email protected] = Technical Contact List The strawman scenario: - govt worker begins drafting a policy note in ODF about the use of personal data received via email - govt worker pulls in the text of the relevant statute, which is in a DITA specialization - govt worker pulls in the legal disclaimer which must now be included in every government email reply, from a different DITA specialization - govt worker pulls in the instructions on how to include the text of the disclaimer in emails, from documentation of the email software written in DocBook - technical author 1, using DITA, creates an internal policy and procedures website - and pulls in text from the DocBook email software documentation - and pulls in the legal text from a DITA specialization - and pulls in the relevant section of the policy note, written in ODF - technical author 2, using DocBook, creates a customized version of the email software documentation - and pulls in portions of the procedures web site, in the form of DITA topics and ODF policy notes - as the legal disclaimer changes, or the policy changes, or the email software changes, or the statute itself changes, all the references can be updated simply by rebuilding/republishing the content, since all reuse is by reference not by copy-and-paste Michael Priestley IBM DITA Architect and Classification Schema PDT Lead [email protected] http://dita.xml.org/blog/25