Astoria Software has revealed demand for content reuse and adoption of the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) standard, in a poll. Nearly 42% of the poll respondents estimated they have 15% to 25% reuse in their content. Nearly 41% estimated they have 25% to 50% reuse, and 17.7% estimated they have greater than 50% reuse. Overall, 164 attendees responded to the content reuse question. Around 46% of the poll respondents are investigating DITA, for use within their organizations, and 11.6% are currently implementing DITA. The rest either have no plans (24.9%) or are not sure of them (17.1%). In total, 181 attendees responded to the DITA query.
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