[daisy] Survey: Should Daisy support DITA?

[Andreas Deininger]

2008/1/18, Peter Dykstra <peter.dykstra at verizon.net>:
>
> 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?

Please note the following blog entry which deals with the question
whether there is an open source CMS that takes a Wiki approach to
(DITA) editing:

http://blogs.sun.com/coolstuff/entry/wikis_docs_and_the_reuse

This article explicitely mentions Daisy as one of four potential
candidates for dita support.

Regards
Andreas