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Re: DITA possible for start-up/lone writer?

Subject: Re: DITA possible for start-up/lone writer?
From: Lisa Wright <lisawright -at- mail -dot- utexas -dot- edu>
Date: Fri, 03 Mar 2006 14:56:41 -0600

In addition to what John mentions, the main arguments I've heard are:

DITA is already topic based, as opposed to book based. Its tag structure is focused on topics and eliminates a lot of things that you would have to sort through with DocBook. It's built around the three main content types you'd include in tech docs: procedure, concept, and reference.

DITA includes the transformations for several common outputs, so you don't need to write your own.

DITA support is being built into a number of XML authoring tools.

We haven't implemented DITA, but we're certainly looking at it hard.

Lisa

John Cornellier wrote:

The two main reasons, as far as I know, to use DITA compared to another DTDs are:
* specialization
* topic maps


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Broberg, Mats wrote:
>I still don't quite grasp all the hot air with DITA, and what you can
>achieve with DITA that you can't achieve with any other DTD/Schema.
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RE: DITA possible for start-up/lone writer?: From: Broberg, Mats
Re: DITA possible for start-up/lone writer?: From: John Cornellier

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