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An Implementor's Viewpoint: Innodata-Isogen on DITA (Interview with Rick Schochler)

In this exclusive TheContentWrangler.com interview with Rick Schochler of Innodata Isogen, Scott Abel talks to Rick about his company’s experience working with the Darwin Information Typing Architecture (DITA). While he and his firm see DITA as an excellent “option” for some organizations, he advises readers to maintain a “healthy skepticism” when it comes to software tools and their “support” for DITA. “Some day we’ll have tools that will provide some default functionality,” Schochler says.

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In the next year, how much will you reduce your use of transitional text?

50% or more
53% (8 votes)
20% or so
0% (0 votes)
limited change
13% (2 votes)
not convinced it's a good idea
33% (5 votes)
Total votes: 15

DocZone.comâ„¢ Expands European Sales Force

New Sales Director To Lead Continued Expansion into EU Market

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Do We Really Need All that Glue?

Read "Do We Really Need All that Glue?" then share your perspective with author, JoAnn Hackos, and others by posting to this forum.

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About: the Extreme Markup Languages Conference, or the view from the isle of angle brackets

You get the defiant flavor of the conference from its slogan: "There is nothing so practical as a good theory."  The attendees readily voice disagreement with speakers or even confess
incomprehension (with rare candor) because they care about the result.  They want it to work right. Some of the attendees were in on the cultivation of markup as a concept, so they get markup as only those who saw the bare dirt can.

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