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Jason Owen

Why DITA, especially "for the Web?" | DITA per Day - 1 views

  • Content that is personalized, easily found, appropriately scoped, and pleasant to interact with has a name: Adaptive Content
  • content should adapt to the reader as well as to the device.
  • Among its high points for alignment with direct-to-Web content delivery solutions, DITA provides: Close affinity to Web page writing conventions and length Intentional similarity of inner content markup names (p, ul, ol, dl, etc.) A close match in its title, short description, and body structure to the way most Web CMS tools manage their content. Maps that work so very well for representing collections of content.
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  • On the minus side, HTML content models have evolved well past the internal models that DITA assimilated in 1999, which causes these limitations: Web authors often organize content in patterns that DITA’s content model won’t allow. You can’t always author in DITA “as if it were HTML.” HTML5 has added elements for which there are no equivalent base forms in DITA. Normally, domain specialization in DITA can help rectify this mismatch, but because HTML5 is a “Living Standard” and can add or drop elements as it evolves, an ongoing tension remains between the two formats. Entering values for DITA’s various metadata structures is perhaps harder than it should be for light editing environments.
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