As a result of this major upgrade, the eXact LCMS and eXact Mobile platforms now support XML DITA content authoring and management. DITA (the Darwin Information Typing Architecture) is an XML-based standard promoted by OASIS, the US-headquartered global consortium that is driving the standardization of technical and maintenance documentation in sectors like the machine-engineering, semiconductor, automotive, financial, pharmaceutical, and translation industries.

The DITA specification enables greater flexibility in learning-documentation publishing and reuse, empowering authors to organize digital materials and documents into smaller, more focused topic items. These items can be classified by subject domain and linked to publication maps, rather than being sealed into long books and chapters, as is the case in existing publishing XML specifications like ePub and DocBook.



After DITA's recent announcement of a new learning and training materials specification, many corporate CIOs and CLOs are now asking for DITA compliancy from suppliers, according to Fabrizio Cardinali, CEO of eXact learning solutions North America.


Cardinali adds that these CIOs and CLOs are also requiring AICC and/or SCORM compliance in their instructor-led and technical-training content production processes in order to better support the reuse and sharing of documentation sources within and across their organisations' technical and training departments.