Alan Houser wrote: > DITA architect Michael Priestley (a co-author of the 2001 paper you > cited) has more recently addressed the misconception that DITA is an > exchange format, not an authoring format > (http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/1081). My anecdotal > experience matches Michael's -- that about half of all > implementations use the DITA DTD "out of the box" for content > authoring.
This showed up in a conference plug recently and I revisited the link that Alan provided to Michael Priestly's posting. Out of interest, I looked at the post to which Michael had replied, and found it was a very good email from Eliot Kimber - one of the long-term industry experts going well back into the SGML days. His explanation is far better than mine was, but echoed much of the same sentiment. If you're interested, have a look at http://groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/message/1080. -- Regards, Marcus Carr email: mcarr at allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ Allette Systems (Australia) www: http://www.allette.com.au ___________________________________________________________________ "Everything should be made as simple as possible, but not simpler." - Einstein
