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Tag Archives: DocBook
Headed to DocTrain/DITA and STC Summit
I will be at both the Society for Technical Communication (STC) Summit in Atlanta next month (May 2-6) and DocTrain/DITA in Indianapolis (June 2-5). At the former, I will be talking about employee performance evaluation as part of a “Progression,” … Continue reading
Article: Choosing an XML Schema
Scott Abel, who runs The Content Wrangler, a website that focuses on content management, has posted an article of mine titled, Choosing an XML Schema: Docbook or DITA. The article talks about how to choose the right XML schema for … Continue reading
DB: DocBook Websites
I’ll be starting a new set of posts that are specific to DocBook. These will be prefixed with “DB:” and will usually, but not always, be “off-topic” with respect to the main focus of the blog. Over the last few … Continue reading

From dmr to DITA (DocBook, too)
I was sorry to hear of the passing of Unix and C language pioneer Dennis Ritchie. I only met him a couple of times, but found him to be gracious and humble, despite being one of the smartest people I’ve … Continue reading →