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Invitation to comment on Lightweight #DITA: An Introduction – ends Dec. 27th

OASIS and the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) TC are pleased to announce that Lightweight DITA: An Introduction Version 1.0 is now available for public review and comment.

Lightweight DITA (LwDITA) is a simplified version of DITA, the Darwin Information Typing Archtecture. In comparison to DITA 1.3, LwDITA has a smaller element and attribute set, stricter content models, and a reduced feature set.

LwDITA also defines mappings between XML, HTML5, and Markdown, enabling authoring, collaboration, and publishing across different markup languages.

The documents and related files are available here:

Lightweight DITA: An Introduction Version 1.0
Committee Note Draft 01 / Public Review Draft 01
07 November 2017

HTML (Authoritative):
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/LwDITA/v1.0/cnprd01/LwDITA-v1.0-cnprd01.html

PDF:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/LwDITA/v1.0/cnprd01/LwDITA-v1.0-cnprd01.pdf

DITA source:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/LwDITA/v1.0/cnprd01/LwDITA-v1.0-cnprd01-DITA-source.zip

Grammar files:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/LwDITA/v1.0/cnprd01/LwDITA-v1.0-cnprd01-grammars.zip

Sample LwDITA document:
http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/LwDITA/v1.0/cnprd01/LwDITA-v1.0-cnprd01-samples.zip

For your convenience, OASIS provides a complete package of the specification document and any related files in ZIP distribution files. You can download the ZIP file at:

http://docs.oasis-open.org/dita/LwDITA/v1.0/cnprd01/LwDITA-v1.0-cnprd01.zip

How to Provide Feedback

OASIS and the DITA TC value your feedback. We solicit input from developers, users and others, whether OASIS members or not, for the sake of improving the interoperability and quality of its technical work.

The public review starts immediately and ends 27 December 2017 at 23:59 UTC.

Comments may be submitted to the TC by any person through the use of the OASIS TC Comment Facility which can be used by following the instructions on the TC’s “Send A Comment” page (https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/comments/index.php?wg_abbrev=dita).

Comments submitted by TC non-members for this work and for other work of this TC are publicly archived and can be viewed at:

https://lists.oasis-open.org/archives/dita-comment/

All comments submitted to OASIS are subject to the OASIS Feedback License, which ensures that the feedback you provide carries the same obligations at least as the obligations of the TC members. In connection with this public review, we call your attention to the OASIS IPR Policy [1] applicable especially [2] to the work of this technical committee. All members of the TC should be familiar with this document, which may create obligations regarding the disclosure and availability of a member’s patent, copyright, trademark and license rights that read on an approved OASIS specification.

OASIS invites any persons who know of any such claims to disclose these if they may be essential to the implementation of the above specification, so that notice of them may be posted to the notice page for this TC’s work.

Additional information about the specification and the DITA TC can be found at the TC’s public home page:

https://www.oasis-open.org/committees/dita/

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