DITA specialization and the Financial Accounting Standards Board

This presentation will explore the practicalities of applying DITA in a publishing context for the Financial Accounting Foundation in its project to produce a new codification of the U.S. Generally Accepted Accounting Principles, for which a DITA-based but highly specialized XML application was developed. This presentation examines the reasons why the FAF felt that DITA was a good fit, the costs and benefits of the resulting DITA application, and some of the key technical characteristics of the DITA application itself. Finally we’ll review how DITA could be applied to other types of publications of interest to commercial publishers and how the use of DITA could affect both editorial and production workflows as well as post-publication opportunities enabled by the use of DITA to support business tasks such as syndication and repurposing in other types of publications.