RE: moving into xml-based writing

["Bonnie Granat" <bgranat -at- granatedit -dot- com>]

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> Sent: Wednesday, June 04, 2008 8:49 PM
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> Subject: RE: moving into xml-based writing
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> Many thanks for the helpful and encouraging replies to my 
> query, and especially to Bob Doyle, who provided the 
> excellent PDF on DITA tools. 
>  
> IMO, it's amazingly hard to find quality newbie help about 
> DITA, particularly about how it affects the writing workflow. 
> I'm always surprised every time I go prospecting for info 
> about DITA at how the discussions all seem to center around 
> its business aspects. I can never find any down-n-dirty 
> details about implementing it. If anyone can point me to some 
> good low-level info--like, fr'instance, who exactly creates 
> the DITA map, or how does topic-based writing *really* differ 
> from writing tightly structured, modularized doc--I would be 
> grateful. 


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