What is DITA?
The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based, end-to-end architecture for authoring, producing, and delivering readable information as discrete, typed topics.• What is DITA good for? • Managing readable information • Reusing information in many different combinations and deliverables • Creating online information systems such as User Assistance (help) or web resource • Creating minimalist books for easier authoring and use • These terms keep coming up in DITA conversations; what do they mean? topic-oriented authoring Creating a unit of information for a single subject. The topics can then be assembled into help systems or books that require a particular selection and organization of subjects. information typing Identifying the type of topic, such as task, concept, reference, example, and so on. The type of the topic may determine its structure, such as a task having steps. In DITA, an XML DTD or Schema guides the writer to author information with the correct struct
