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Thought you might be interested in this article: Creating DITA Content: Who Says You Can’t Use Microsoft Word? By Scott Abel, The Content Wrangler It’s a fact: Microsoft Word is a word processor. Two more facts. Microsoft has not marketed Word as an XML editor. And, they don’t plan to. Why? Because MS Word is not an XML authoring tool, no mater what your IT team—or you—may believe. While Word may indeed understand and use some XML, it doesn’t use XML in the way technical communicators need it to. Instead, it uses XML to transfer information back and forth between MS Office products. Useful? Yes. Structured XML authoring? Not even close. That said, it’s also a fact that XML authoring tools like XMetaL and Arbortext can do what Microsoft Word alone cannot (even in the newest version of… Read the rest: http://www.thecontentwrangler.com/article/1540/

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