All good info.
More reasons to use DITA or DocBook is the availability of off-the-shelf
authoring, publishing, and file management (CMS) tools. Also, personnel
support (authoring and development) .. it is much easier to find people
to work on one of the "standards" than your custom model.
Cheers,
...scott
On 7/8/13 3:50 PM, Alan Houser wrote:
I gotta generally agree with Matt. Occasionally I run into an
information modeling project that I can knock off in an afternoon, but
that's pretty rare. Remember that you will not only need to model
"block" content (topics, headings, paragraphs, lists, etc.), but also
tables, cross-references, images, etc. The latter set can be a bit
tricky. Plus, oh, your metadata.
With DITA or DocBook, you also get a publishing framework. Also
usually non-trivial to create from scratch, especially if you are
publishing to multiple output formats, using filtering, content
re-use, etc.
I'll mention with some regret that FrameMaker's DocBook support is
pretty poor. I've never figured out why...the "typical" use cases for
both (books, PDF) line up very well. It may be a chicken-and-egg
issue...I suspect more people would use DocBook if FrameMaker provided
better DocBook support.
-Alan
On 7/8/13 6:31 PM, Matt Sullivan wrote:
A list of what you'll save using DITA or DocBook rather than creating
your own schema:
1. Time
2. Money
(Hey, someone had to say it...)
-Matt
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