1. © 2015 Comtech Services, Inc. 1 DITA 1.3 What does it mean for you? JoAnn Hackos, Chair DITA Adoption TC Kris Eberlein, Chair DITA TC April 2015

2. © 2015 Comtech Services, Inc. 2 DITA 1.3 supports … Troubleshooting Create well-structured troubleshooting topic types Add troubleshooting items to steps and tasks Add troubleshooting notes to any topic Release management Add release management items to your prolog Generate release notes automatically

3. © 2015 Comtech Services, Inc. 3 DITA 1.3 supports … Content-sensitive Help Add new attributes to the callback ID Position help windows more accurately Accessibility markup Make tables easier for Braille or spoken-word users to understand. Ensure that column titles are read for every cell

4. © 2015 Comtech Services, Inc. 4 DITA 1.3 supports … Learning and Training Use multiple new question and answer types, including multiple- paragraphs questions, answers, and feedback. Collect together all learning content in the new learningObject maps. MathML and SVG Insert MathML equations directly into DITA topics. Insert SVG drawings directly into DITA topics.

5. © 2015 Comtech Services, Inc. 5 DITA 1.3 supports … Add new highlights Add strike through (linethru) and overline to your content Add new markup language Add XML elements to your text Add other markup languages like processing instructions, namespaces, parameters, and more

6. © 2015 Comtech Services, Inc. 6 DITA 1.3 supports … Cascade attribute Turn off cascading metadata values between topics and maps Process your output more accurately with metadata Targeted delivery Use “delivery target” instead of the “print” attribute Format your content specifically for HTML5, Word, Kindle, and so on

7. © 2015 Comtech Services, Inc. 7 DITA 1.3 supports … RelaxNG Validate DITA topics with the RELAX NG standards instead of DTDs or XSDs. RELAX NG is the new base or root version for DITA. Reference same topics Link to an ID in the same topic. For example, link to a figure elsewhere in a topic by placing a period after the hash tag (

8. © 2015 Comtech Services, Inc. 8 DITA 1.3 supports … New sorting elements Use the new sort-as element to facilitate sorting in Asian languages. More table formatting Control the printed formatting of tables with new elements Print tables in landscape and rotate individual cells.

9. © 2015 Comtech Services, Inc. 9 DITA 1.3 supports … Miscellaneous fixes in titles for more information in more places,, and to indexterms Keyrefs on Style attributes for and “rev” attributes in titles Xref links in

10. © 2015 Comtech Services, Inc. 10 DITA 1.3 supports … Grouped filtering attributes Filter for more than one attribute at a time Process for any of the values Arbitrary groups in a topic Use to organize a chunk of content in a topic Associate a conref or conkeyref with the chunk

11. © 2015 Comtech Services, Inc. 11 DITA 1.3 supports … Branch filtering lets you use more than one set of conditions for a single map Publish two different sets of content in a single document Publish multiple documents from a single map Scoped keys “keyscope” attribute limits how keys are applied Create multi-product documents Prevent keys from interfering with one another

12. © 2015 Comtech Services, Inc. 12 DITA Adoption Support for Troubleshooting Release management MathML Learning and Training In planning New domains RelaxNG Keyscope Branch filtering Context-sensitive help