DTDs for Internal IT Documents?

Saqib Ali asks: "A DTD (Documentation Type Definition) defines the document structure with a list of legal elements. DocBook DTD is being widely used in creating Linux related documentation. However I am looking for a XML DTD that is more suited to internal IT documentation, and easy to learn and use. Preferably I would like to use a DTD that can be used with OpenOffice. What DTDs are other Slashdot readers using for for internal IT documentation? I have created documentation using DocBook DTD and hosted them on a Apache Cocoon . Cocoon lets me transform the XML to HTML or PDF. I would like to keep the same backend infrastructure (i.e. Cocoon) but try out other DTDs that are suited for IT related documentation. Any ideas?"

Comments

Re: Docbook WYSIWYG

[booch]

Morphon is a good WYSIWYG editor for DocBook and other XML dialects. It comes with DocBook stylesheets built in. Morphon is now free (as in beer).

DTDs for the humanities

[SgtChaireBourne]

Which DTDs have you looked at already and what do you plan to use them for?

Just off the top of my head, I recall TEI and TEI-lite being in wide spread use. There are quite a few subsets of both. In general it's often easier to strip an existing DTD down to what you need than to try to make a new one from scratch.

Docbook, as others have mentioned, is good for simple documents, or ISO-12083 for more complex ones are additional options.