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 > > -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130708/c92ae9eb/attachment.html>
