RE: Writing structured content [recap]

["Chris Vickery" <cvickery -at- arenasolutions -dot- com>]

DITA is not an analysis tool. It's a set of XML elements and that's all.
You have to do the analysis, chunking, whatever, yourself. Gordon is
asking how to change writers' writing style. I don't think anyone
suggested DITA as the analysis tool.

It's nice to know that the first hit for DITA is no longer Dita Von
Teese though. Maybe she's less popular now she left Marilyn Manson.

Who ordered the cheesecake?

Chris

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Gordon asks:
   
  ..... I'm more interested in how best to
shift a docs team from writing chapters, to writing distinct chunks of
information. 
   
  Richard Lewis responds:
   
  Creating loosely-coupled, highly cohesive (i.e., highly modular)
chunks of information is an analysis issue.  A fancy word for chunking
is partitioning.  Partitioning is also a big part of the definition of
analysis.  What you are trying to identify is an analysis technique.
Not some technology-based solution.     I googled DITA.   The first
entry stated "an XML-based..."  - that's all I needed to know.  Ain't no
such thing as an XML based analysis tool.  
   
    
   
   


   
       
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