http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/wilbert/2007/05/23/recycling-webcontent-with-dita/ Cetis blog Wed, 09 Jul 2014 09:33:44 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=4.1.22 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/wilbert/2007/05/23/recycling-webcontent-with-dita/#comment-5 Thu, 09 Apr 2009 08:35:00 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/wilbert/2007/05/23/recycling-webcontent-with-dita/#comment-5 […] Recycling webcontent with DITA (blogs.cetis.org.uk) […]

]]> http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/wilbert/2007/05/23/recycling-webcontent-with-dita/#comment-4 Fri, 29 Jun 2007 12:04:04 +0000 http://blogs.cetis.org.uk/wilbert/2007/05/23/recycling-webcontent-with-dita/#comment-4 I did some works in the area of creating learning content with (edu)DocBook. Currently DITA is hyped very much. I guess Norman Walsh showed that much of the things people love DITA for (e.g. topics, maps etc.) could also be done with DocBook. Nevertheless DITA provides some interesting features for creating learning content. Specialization is one them.
I agree with you that the focus of content authors on MS Word is a problem for structured authoring. My personal experience is that people tend to prefer Word as long as they didn’t try DocBook :-). We created large, modular handbooks and courses for multiple audiences and media formats with DocBook … Every tried with Word? ;-). My thumb rule is that people need 3-4 weeks until they can handle structured XML very well; after some month they won’t change back to Word again.
Best wishes.
Ludger

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