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<div class="moz-cite-prefix"><font face="Verdana">All good info.<br>
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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.<br>
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Cheers,<br>
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...scott<br>
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On 7/8/13 3:50 PM, Alan Houser wrote:<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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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.<br>
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-Alan<br>
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On 7/8/13 6:31 PM, Matt Sullivan wrote:<br>
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or DocBook rather than creating your own schema:
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