I'm often asked for good resources on writing modular documentation for single-sourcing, chunking, and reuse. It's a learned skill, and a task that takes planning and effort, but can be immensely valuable.
This is by no means an exhaustive list, and has some Information Architecture and Schema development resources thrown in for good measure...
If you want an exhaustive list, visit: http://www.xmlbooks.com
- Single Sourcing: Building Modular Documentation by Kurt Ament ISBN:0815514913
- Documenting Software Architectures: Views and Beyond ISBN:0201703726
- Information Architecture for the World Wide Web: Designing Large-Scale Web Sites, ISBN: 0596000359
- XML Hacks, ISBN: 0596007116
- XML Handbook, ISBN: 0130497657
- Developing SGML DTDs: From Text to Model to Markup, ISBN:0133098818
- Content Management for Dynamic Web Delivery, ISBN: 0471085863
- Information Architecture: Blueprints for the Web, ISBN: 0735712506
- Managing Enterprise Content: A Unified Content Strategy, ISBN:0735713065
There is also a course/book called Information Mapping that is good for getting authors to think about writing self-contained information objects, too.
For DocBook newbies, I'd recommend: Norm Walsh's Tutorials and, of course, DocBook: The Definitive Guide.
For those of you in the industry, what do you recommend?
See also: XML
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