Developing Lightweight DITA (LwDITA): an architecture to ease DITA implementation and adoption.

Michael Priestley, mfcpriestley@gmail.com, Chair
Frank Wegmann, Frank.Wegmann@softwareag.com, Chair
Dana Aubin, dana.aubin@comtech-serv.com, Secretary

To develop a specification for Lightweight DITA (LwDITA), an architecture that can ease implementation by vendors and adoption by users. LwDITA will provide:

• A simplified schema for topics and maps, with fewer elements and tighter content models.
• Out of the box mappings and specifications for authoring topics without XML —using HTML5 or Markdown.
• A simplified specialization architecture to define new topic types.

• Lightweight DITA Subcommittee's GitHub repository.
• Committee Note: Lightweight DITA: An Introduction 1.0
• List of LwDITA-aware tools.

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