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I'd just say flatly there won't be one. Requirements vary too much.
Basically there's more than one tools market.
For example, structured authoring in DITA using a content management
system is cost-effective for large organizations with lots of products
with overlapping functionality and/or that translate into lots of
languages, but would make no sense for a one-person department
documenting a single product in one language.
On Wed, Feb 26, 2014 at 9:28 AM, McLauchlan, Kevin
<Kevin -dot- McLauchlan -at- safenet-inc -dot- com> wrote:
> I would not hold my breath waiting for an overarching standard paradigm in my [remaining] lifetime. If anything, fragmentation seems more the norm. (Again, no studies, just a couple of decades of observation.)
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