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Subject:RE: Help with Docbook (an alternative) From:"Mark Baker" <mbaker -at- ca -dot- stilo -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Thu, 24 Jul 2003 11:12:42 -0400
France Baril wrote:
> I have found another alternative: DITA (Darwin Information Typing
> Architecture). It is a documentation architecture proposed by
> IBM. I am in trial period with this new architecture and DTD, but
> for now it seems to me like a flexible solution as it has been
> created to be extended and customized.
By the same token, however, adopting DITA is adopting DITA, not, per se,
adopting XML. You get the specific advantages and disadvantages of DITA, not
the general advantages of XML.
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