On Thu, Sep 20, 2012, at 01:59 PM, Jessica Tomechak wrote: > Recently someone from the docs world asked me why we are using Docbook + > Publican for our documentation, rather than DITA. I gave a reasonable > reply, but in the end, I thought it would be worth bringing the topic up > here. For the record, I'm not proposing or advocating anything. Just > looking for the community temperature. > > Some benefits listed by this DITA advocate I was speaking with: > > Simpler tagging than Docbook
How much simpler? Publican's tagging is pretty simple. It's not Markdown-simple, but it's not that bad. > It’s open source, has open source community developing useful plugins, > such as latest webhelp output Publican is also open source, so I don't see any benefit to DITA over DocBook/Publican in that regard. Publican has PDF and HTML - it looks like Webhelp is just XHTML with styling/etc. Is there anything native to webhelp that we don't get from Publican's HTML output? We've already put a fair amount of effort into the existing Publican stuff - so I'd want to see something pretty darn nifty to throw that out in favor of a new format or have a tool that can easily convert Publican -> DITA... Best, Joe -- Joe Brockmeier j...@zonker.net Twitter: @jzb http://www.dissociatedpress.net/
