Re: The State of DITA; was, I'm now blogging about Agile & TW

[kafkascampi <kafkascampi -at- gmail -dot- com>]

Richard said "> I'm curious as to where you saw an advantage for DITA over
DocBook for
> translation.
>
> As far as I can tell, they are pretty much equivalent."

I could see how the topic-based structure of DITA could lead to cost savings
> for translation. Because you're reusing topics in multiple deliverables, you
> have less to translate. Some authors heavily reuse entities in Docbook, but
> it's part of the whole idea of DITA.
>
> Chris
>
>
> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:29 PM, Robert Lauriston <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>wrote:
>
>> Sorry, I can't remember. It might just have been that everybody I
>> talked with who was doing that sort of thing was using DITA.
>>
>> >From my perspective, DITA was more work than DocBook and given that
>> particular set of docs and deliverables I couldn't any advantage.
>>
>> On Wed, Dec 2, 2009 at 5:10 PM, Richard L Hamilton <dick -at- rlhamilton -dot- net>
>> wrote:
>> > I'm curious as to where you saw an advantage for DITA over DocBook for
>> > translation.
>> >
>> > As far as I can tell, they are pretty much equivalent.
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