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DITA: It ain’t that new!

January 22, 2006 Blog No Comments

Although the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) seems like it’s brand-spankin’ new to many technical communicators, DITA has been around for quite a while. In fact, it has taken several years for it to garner significant attention in the technical communication industry, despite the efforts of Michael Priestley, Gretchen Hargis, and Susan Carpenter, who authored this August 2001 Society for Technical Communication journal article DITA: An XML-based Technical Documentation Authoring and Publishing Architecture (Technical Communication, Vol. 48, No. 3).

Read DITA: An XML-based Technical Documentation Authoring and Publishing Architecture (16-pages, PDF)