Darwin Information Typing Architecture(DITA) Version 1.3

The Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) is an XML-based architecture for authoring, producing, anddelivering topic-oriented, information-typed content that can be reused and single-sourced in a variety of ways.While DITA historically has been driven by the requirements of large-scale technical documentation authoring,management, and delivery, it is a standard that is applicable to any kind of publication or information that mightbe presented to readers, including interactive training and educational materials, standards, reports, businessdocuments, trade books, travel and nature guides, and more.DITA is designed for creating new document types and describing new information domains based on existingtypes and domains. The process for creating new types and domains is called specialization. Specializationenables the creation of specific, targeted XML grammars that can still use tools and design rules that weredeveloped for more general types and domains; this is similar to how classes in an object-oriented system caninherit the methods of ancestor classes.