Re: Writing structured content [recap]

Subject: Re: Writing structured content [recap]
From: Richard Lewis <tech44writer -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com
Date: Fri, 22 Jun 2007 10:45:27 -0700 (PDT)

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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