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Proposal for Lightweight DITA subcommittee

From: Michael Priestley
To: [email protected]
Date: Tue, 27 May 2014 13:31:00 -0000

Want to get this on the agenda for discussion so we can vote next week: Proposed name: Lightweight DITA Proposed mailing list: [email protected] Statement of purpose: To develop a specification for a lightweight DITA architecture that can ease implementation by vendors and adoption by users. The architecture will provide: - Easy out of the box authoring for common topic types - Out of the box mappings and specifications for authoring these topic types in other formats, such as HTML5 or markdown - Easy assembly of new specializations from existing section types - Easy creation of new specializations by generation from a topic type designed for specifying specializations Deliverables - Analysis of lightweight DITA related personas, scenarios, and requirements - Lightweight authoring profiles for topic, concept, task, reference, potentially others - Lightweight specialization architecture - Specialization authoring format - Analysis of lightweight DITA implementation options in other formats, including HTML5 and markdown - Implementations of lightweight DITA that allow for roundtripping with constrained versions of other formats Michael Priestley, Senior Technical Staff Member (STSM) Total Information Experience (TIE) Technology Strategist [email protected] http://dita.xml.org/blog/25