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Implementing a DITA Publishing Solution Without Abandoning Your Current Publishing System Investment

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Or…How IBM started working with DITA without overhauling the entire system!

In Implementing a DITA publishing solution without abandoning your current publishing system investments, Robert Anderson and Erik Hennum explain the rationale behind IBM selecting the Darwin Information Typing Architecture, and describe “the dirty technical details” of their solution. The IBM team reveals how they were able to use DITA “long before time permitted a full-scale migration.”

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To quote: “We created a path to old output formats that were not yet supported from DITA. All of this allowed us to use DITA content without investing in an entirely new system, years before a DITA-based system was ready.”

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