Abstract

Many organizations use component content management to create more sophisticated content, in more languages, and at lower cost. Component content management systems (CCMS) manage components at a fine granular level, in ways that allow the components to be easily used, reused, versioned, linked, assembled, and reassembled into different content products.

In order to support CCMS, content has to be in the eXtensible Markup Language (XML) format. Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) format is widely used for this purpose. This white paper describes DITA, DITA architecture, and DITA support for metadata.