[daisy] Survey: Should Daisy support DITA?

[Peter Dykstra]

One of the biggest recent developments in the world of technical  
publishing is the growth of the DITA standard for structuring  
technical documentation. DITA started as a big-company initiative at  
IBM, but it's become an OASIS standard, and it's supported by the Open  
Toolkit, which is freely available.  More and more commercial CMS's  
are offering DITA support for creating and managing topics but I don't  
know of support in any open source CMS.

This is a general survey to check interest and activity related to  
DITA in the Daisy community, and perhaps start a discussion about DITA  
support in Daisy.

Is anyone interested? If so are you already using DITA? Are there in  
fact other open source CMSs that support it?

The basic question is whether this is an area that is of interest to  
Daisy users, whether resources are available and/or should be used to  
provide Daisy support for DITA and if so where they might come from.

To get things started I've put a few thoughts into a Wiki article (http://cocoondev.org/wiki/g5/562-cd.html 
).  Check this out if you're interested! If anyone has any interest,  
thoughts or related information, please respond!

Thanks in advance,
Peter D.
Metaphor X LLC