Subcommittee Creation Request for DITA for Programmer Content

Submitted on Wednesday, October 5, 2011 - 23:53
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Submitter's Name: Don Day
TC Name: OASIS DITA Technical Committee
TC Email Address: dita@lists.oasis-open.org
Subcommittee Name: DITA for Programmer Content
Subcommittee Email List Name: dita-programmercontent
Statement of Purpose:
1. Provide an open forum for discussion about the use of DITA content to
create
programming reference information in outputs including HTML, PDF, and
embedded
assistance.
2. Provide standard DITA XML specializations for delivering programming
reference information, with special consideration given to:

• requirements for embedded assistance and progressive disclosure (for
  example,
  when a product provides a programming or script editor)
• the use of commonly adopted information designs for programming reference
  information
• coalescing any existing standardization work across the industry
• project requirements, design, and test case items, with the ability to
  provide linkage and automatic traceability verification

Deliverables:
1. Specifications for producing reference information in DITA XML for the
commonly used programming languages:
a. Java
b. javascript
c. C++
2. Specifications for authoring project documentation in DITA XML which can
produce software project artifacts, such as:
a. Project Information
b. Requirements
c. Design
d. Test Plan
with an automatically generated Requirements Traceability Verfication Matrix
3. Detailed documentation about how to make use of the specializations.
4. A sample implementation of each specialization.

The subcommittee will consider additional deliverables as stretch goals
depending on participation.

Chair: Lisa Dyer
Approval Link:
http://www.oasis-open.org/apps/org/workgroup/dita/download.php/43685/DITA-TC-27-Sept-2011-minutes.txt
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The results of this submission may be viewed at:
http://tools.oasis-open.org/issues/browse/TCADMIN