DITA XML Training

So in the last week of July, we finished the training for the migration of our documents to DITA XML. We learned about the infrastructure, tools and the new additions of process, etc. As of last week we attempted the entire document life cycle with one document of a project. We are facing some style sheet issues where some elements are not looking as we would like, but i think the new system has not been as disruptive as hoped. We may need to go through a few documents before we have standardized on reusable templates and topics. Here's hoping for a good ride.

Stem Sentences

At work we are working towards XML/topic based writing and I stumbled upon this article on stem sentences. All my previous writing has had copious amount of stem sentences as that was part of the template and writing standards. This article presents a very credible argument against the use of stem sentences in topic based writing. Worth a read.

DocBook vs DITA

An interesting article - http://www.content4reprint.com/computers/single-source-documentation-docbook-versus-dita.htm