Implementing DITA for DocBook

Norm Walsh does some analysis and attempts to tweak DocBook to address the four technical differences he says the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA) provides technical documentation authors.

A topic-oriented authoring paradigm
A cross-referencing scheme that’s more practical than XML’s flat ID space
SGML’s conref, reinvented
An extensibility model based on �specialization�

Check out Norm’s analysis in Implementing the Darwin Information Typing Architecture for DocBook and feel free to ask questions of his work by posting comments at the end of the article.

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