DITA – friend or foe?

DITA, or as we in Germany call it, „Dieter“, is a not so new XML-based standard for topic-based structured content. It is most commonly used by technical communicators but other implementations are in development. DITA has the advantage of being an OASIS standard and there even exists something like the DITA Open Toolkit (http://www.dita-ot.org/) which can be used to process and publish content (not for the authoring, though) So, DITA has been around for a while and even though it has not yet fulfilled all of its initial promises (to end all content pain, single-source made so easy  etc) I...
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