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A day at the DITA CIDM conference
by Fabrice Talbot - April 15th, 2008

I went to the Content Management Strategies/DITA North America 2008 conference (put on by CIDM), which took place in Santa Clara last week. While I went to support our co-founder’s speech on DocBook versus DITA, I also used this opportunity to catch up with software vendors and single-source users. Here’s my top #10 take-away list. Enjoy!

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Docbook and DITA Editors: Is Their Future Online?
by Fabrice Talbot - April 2nd, 2008

Thanks to my Google News Alert service, I recently discovered some on-demand XML Editors supporing DITA. While Salesforce democratized software on-demand in the CRM market, I am still perplexed on the future of on-demand pure play software.

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Single-Source from the Reader’s Point of View
by Teresa Mulvihill - March 22nd, 2008

Documentation written for single-sourcing (topic based, like that found in DITA) has great potential for efficiency. Writing once and publishing in many publications (Developer Guides, User Guides, etc.) and many formats (pdf, html, HTMLHelp, etc.) turns into cost and time savings.

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Single-source documentation - Docbook versus DITA
by Teresa Mulvihill - January 9th, 2008

When it comes to documentation projects, primarily technical, medical, and scientific, using XML is a no-brainer. The heavy thinking comes when deciding which flavor of XML to use: DocBook or DITA (Darwin Information Typing Architecture). I have been a steadfast supporter of DocBook for over six years. I’d tried my hand at DITA and gave it up as a fad; lots of bells and whistles, but too complicated to integrate. And couldn’t DocBook do everything DITA promised anyway?

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