On 02/09/2016 04:08 AM, Eliot Kimber wrote:
I noticed that the "Why choose Ditac?" page says this:
"The DITA Open Toolkit <http://sourceforge.net/projects/dita-ot/> is the
reference implementation of DITA, approved by the persons who design the
DITA standard."
This is not actually true, in that the DITA OT is not a reference
implementation.
The DITA OT team tries to make the implementation as complete and correct
as possible and Robert Anderson, the DITA OT project manager is a member
of the DITA Technical Committee, but there is no formal relationship
between the DITA OT project and the DITA TC. There is no formal approval
of the OT as being complete or correct. While those of us who use and
contribute to it try to make it as correct as we can there's no guarantee
that it is in fact correct.
There is no official "reference implementation" of DITA. OASIS does not,
as a rule, sponsor or fund such development so there's no actual venue or
formal mechanism for creating and maintaining a reference implementation
of the DITA specification.
Thanks for correcting us. We changed the sentence to:
"The DITA Open Toolkit is the de facto reference implementation of DITA."
See http://www.xmlmind.com/ditac/why_choose_ditac.html
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