RE: XHTML vs. DITA/DocBook

["Andrew Squire" <asquire -at- elkera -dot- com -dot- au>]

Hi Rebecca,

We wrote an article that compares XML schema for narrative 
documents which may be helpful:

http://www.elkera.com/cms/articles/technical_papers/comparison_of_xml_schema
_for_narrative_documents/

Regards,
Andrew.

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> Subject: XML: XHTML vs. DITA/DocBook
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> Folks,
> 
> I'm looking at moving to an XML editing system for online help. 
> 
> The unfriendly part of this idea is the schema / DTD. I think 
> I can do everything I need to do using the XHTML DTD.
> 
> - Are there advantages with going with DITA or docbook that 
> may outweigh the apparent ease of sticking with the more 
> familiar XHTML?
> 
> - I'm a sole writer, but wonder if anybody has any experience 
> with developers having ideas about how it should be done - if 
> you've made a similar decision with the writer and the 
> developer in mind. We might, at some point in the far future, 
> do a Spanish translation, or some small amount of on-the-fly 
> customized doc, but not soon.
> 
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