RE: Writing structured content

Subject: RE: Writing structured content
From: "Simon North" <Simon -dot- North -at- quintiq -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com>
Date: Wed, 20 Jun 2007 12:55:38 +0200

Not much help, I know, but I cannot resist the temptation to share this
quote
from Jon Bosak (of XML fame, but prior to that a major force behind the
modular
documentation efforts at Novell and then Sun).

"... document reuse is not a solvable problem in document delivery but
rather
an intractable problem in document writing - which is, how to retain
any
sense of logical connection between pieces of information while writing
as
if your target audience consisted entirely of people afflicted with
ADD."

Jon Bosak, 2006


ymmv




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