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Subject: RE: [docbook] Add topic element to DocBook?
My comments at the end to keep the flow: Thanks. -----Original Message----- On 10/27/06, Rajal Shah <rajal@meshsoftware.com> wrote: > It greatly facilitates modular writing, where we're not just
focused on > books but individual units of information.. The style of writing
in the book > changes from being a single flow from beginning-to-end to instead
be a > collection of topics.. This allows organizations (I work at
Juniper), to > provide their content in book form as well as searchable topics on
the web > or for re-use of content elsewhere. Part of the problem seems to be that we are trying to make something that is a ground-up phenomenon - modular writing via <topic> -
fit into a bottom-down hierarchy. >>>> Rajal -> Very true! I've struggled with that
dichotomoy too.. I've often wondered if we should have a DocTopic v/s a DocBook
mechanism! J Seriously though, I think DITA is taking a
grounds-up approach; and DocBook’s value-add would be to support topics
in the bottom-down hierarchy.. Cause, in the real world, people want to do
books or already have books and want to reuse existing content in the form of
topics too.. I believe, that the books will never go
away and thus support of topics inside a DocBook bottom-down hierarchy would be
the eventual winner over something like DITA. (We need something like maps too,
though).. Regards. -- Rajal |
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