Re: Giving up on XML

[Ned Bedinger <doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com>]

> Technical writing using structure to produce coherent documents. If 
> you don't structure your documents, you are unorganized, and your 
> documents will reflect that. Your customers will probably not be able 
> to use your documents.
>   


I think this results in a lot of make-work. I prefer to formulate the 
tech writer's mission as revealing the structure of information, not 
structuring documents. When you structure documents, you're presumably 
offering the reader a logical or predictable presentation of the 
information. That information has its own structure, and you can easily 
bollix the task by forcing it into another one.


Ned Bedinger
doc -at- edwordsmith -dot- com







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