[ba-ohs-talk] Darwin Information Typing Architecture
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-dita1/index.html
"The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based
architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering technical
information. This article introduces the architecture, which sets forth a
set of design principles for creating information-typed modules at a topic
level, and for using that content in delivery modes such as online help and
product support portals on the Web. This article serves as a roadmap to the
Darwin Information Typing Architecture: what it is and how it applies to
technical documentation. The article links to representative source code" (01)
See also:
http://www-106.ibm.com/developerworks/xml/library/x-dita2/ (02)
"The point of the XML-based Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA)
is to create modular technical documents that are easy to reuse with varied
display and delivery mechanisms, such as helpsets, manuals, hierarchical
summaries for small-screen devices, and so on. This article explains how to
put the DITA principles into practice.
Specialization is the process by which authors and architects define new
topic types, while maintaining compatibility with existing style sheets,
transforms, and processes. The new topic types are defined as an extension,
or delta, relative to an existing topic type, thereby reducing the work
necessary to define and maintain the new type.
The examples used in this paper use XML DTD syntax and XSLT; if you need
background on these subjects, see Resources. " (03)