Kim Haase wrote:
I'd like to know what the Derby community thinks about the possibility
of changing the source format of the Derby documentation from DITA to
DocBook and using a different build system. DocBook is a schema that can
use an XML DTD, like that of DITA; see http://www.docbook.org/ for more
information.
Our DITA toolkit has some problems that the Derby community hasn't been
able to solve with our current level of resources:
- It does not allow us to create book indexes or to create live links
between manuals. The feedback we've received is that this makes the
documentation hard to use.
- Links to tables usually don't work in the PDF or HTML Book versions.
- Building the PDF and HTML Book versions of the docs causes errors and
warnings that we can't seem to get rid of.
That says what DITA cannot do, but doesn't indicate any benefits of
docbook, what would be the benefits of switching?
Dan.
