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RE: Help project structure
- From: "Bradford, Denis" <denisb at rational dot com>
- To: "'mpriestl at ca dot ibm dot com'" <mpriestl at ca dot ibm dot com>,docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Mon, 18 Mar 2002 13:53:44 -0500
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Help project structure
I appreciate the correction, apologize for not reading more carefully. Your
point is particularly well-taken that topic-oriented information works just
as well for books.
Denis
> -----Original Message-----
> From: mpriestl@ca.ibm.com [mailto:mpriestl@ca.ibm.com]
> Sent: Monday, March 18, 2002 11:52 AM
> To: denisb@Rational.Com
> Subject: re your post on docbook-apps
>
>> In fact, even if some
>> specialized
>> online DTD becomes widely accepted, lots of folks (like us)
>> need to publish
>> both print and online docs, and may not be able to use it.
>> Those people
>> will
>> still need the flexibility and extensibility of DocBook.
>> _____
>> Denis
>>
>
> This isn't true. DITA is designed specifically for
> singlesourcing, not for
> online information. Topic-oriented information often gets
> talked of as
> "the online model", but it works just as well for books.
>
> I'm not subscribed to the docbook-apps list, but if you want
> to continue
> this on xml-docs, I will respond to it there. (Feel free to
> forward this
> reply to docbook-apps as well).
>
> Michael Priestley
> DITA Specialization Architect
> mpriestl@ca.ibm.com
> Dept 833 IBM Canada t/l: 969-3233 phone: 905-413-3233
> Toronto Information Development
>