[Framers] Fwd: Starting DITA 1.2

[shuttie27]

No, DITA is not XML. It is a DTD that can be used to create XML documents. It can also be used within a FrameMaker structured application to create structured FM documents that can remain just that, with output to PDF. The DITA EDD within FrameMaker will take care of the paragraph and character tagging. There is absolutely no requirement to output XML if you don't want to. My point was that the OP can create FM documents using the DITA application in FramaMaker, output to PDF, and think about XML later on. That is exactly what I did some years back.
Roger


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-------- Original message --------From: Robert Lauriston <robert at lauriston.com> Date: 28/06/2018  18:12  (GMT+00:00) To: "An email list for people using Adobe FrameMaker software." <framers at lists.frameusers.com> Subject: [Framers] Fwd:  Starting DITA 1.2 
"Forget about XML for the time being. You can use DITA or any other
structure without having to convert it to XML."

DITA is XML. Or are you saying that you could use unstructured
FrameMaker paragraph and character tags in the same way you would DITA
elements? That's not entirely true, some elements have no counterpart
in unstructured FrameMaker.

If you can accomplish something using unstructured FrameMaker, why put
in all the time and effort to use structured? Conversely, if you
really need DITA, FrameMaker's probably not the best tool.

---------- Forwarded message ----------
From: Roger Shuttleworth <shuttie27 at gmail.com>
Date: Thu, Jun 28, 2018 at 2:51 AM
Subject: Re: [Framers] Starting DITA 1.2
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com


... Forget about XML for the time being. You can use DITA or any other
structure without having to convert it to XML. I did that for a couple
of years before even attempting to create XML. ...
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