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DITA XML: a reuse by reference architecture for technical documentation

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SIGDOC '01: Proceedings of the 19th annual international conference on Computer documentation

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https://doi.org/10.1145/501516.501547

Published: 21 October 2001 Publication History

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The Darwin Information Typing Architecture is an XML architecture for producing and reusing technical information. DITA promises the following:

Scalable reuse, so you can reuse content in any number of delivery contexts simultaneously without complicating the source

Descriptive markup, so you can use markup that describes your information in terms your customers need

Interchangeability, so you can treat specialized markup as if it were general, getting reuse of tools and processes defined at more general levels of descriptiveness

Process inheritance, so you can reuse existing process logic in your specialized processes.

It accomplishes these goals by applying the principle of reuse by reference to the dimensions of content, design, and process within a technical communications workflow.

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Priestley, M., Hargis, G., and Carpenter, S. (2001) DITA: An XML-based Technical Documentation Authoring and Publishing Architecture. Technical Communication, Technical Communication, Volume 48, No.3, p.352-367

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Schell, D.A., Priestley, M., Day, D.R., Hunt, J. Status and directions of XML in technical documentation in IBM: DITA. Conference proceedings, Make IT Easy 2001 http://www.ibm.com/ibm/easy/eou_ext.nsf/Publish/1819

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DITA XML: a reuse by reference architecture for technical documentation
1. Applied computing
  1. Document management and text processing
    1. Document capture
      1. Document analysis
    2. Document preparation
2. Human-centered computing
  1. Human computer interaction (HCI)

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