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Implementing DITA for DocBook

October 24, 2005
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Norm Walsh does some analysis and attempts to tweak DocBook to address the four technical differences he says the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) provides technical documentation authors.

  • A topic-oriented authoring paradigm
  • A cross-referencing scheme that’s more practical than XML’s flat ID space
  • SGML’s conref, reinvented
  • An extensibility model based on

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