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... the DocBook model (so far) has been a "top-down" approach, with documents typically being authored as entire publications that contain chapters and sections. Introducing a <topic> into DocBook muddies the waters. Either: (1) You use <topic>s instead of <book>s, in which case why not just use DITA?; or,
I've never been convinced that DITA is particularly better suited for topic-based authoring than DocBook. See http://norman.walsh.name/2005/10/21/dita for a cogent argument on that point. As a writer who uses both every day, I would look elsewhere for relative strengths and weaknesses. For example, in DITA's favor I might point out its small tag set, reltables, and conrefs; as compared to DocBook's maturity, abundance of tools, and ease of implementation and customization. IMO, DocBook's "swiss army knife" flexibility is a Good Thing in a modular XML publishing system. From this standpoint, adding a well-considered topic model is one more useful refinement to DocBook. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: docbook-apps-unsubscr...@lists.oasis-open.org For additional commands, e-mail: docbook-apps-h...@lists.oasis-open.org
