Not sure if it's commercial or reserved to O’Reilly authors. O’Reilly Atlas, a web-based platform which uses HTMLBook (XHTML5 based) as its native source format.MadCap Flare, a desktop application which seems to use a variant of XHTML as its native source format.You need a tool letting you create and publish full books -not just pages- in HTML. In fact, this HTML approach can work but you need more than an HTML editor for that. Inclusion of “boilerplate text” (a note, the product name, a version number, etc) at different locations of the book.

Conditional processing (also called profiling).

Automatic generation of text in cross-references.

Automatic creation of links between some of the book divisions.Automatic numbering of parts, chapters, appendices, sections, figures, tables, examples and equations.Automatic generation of a “back-of-the-book index”.Automatic generation of global and local table of contents.The most important format for your deliverables being HTML, why not directly write your technical documentation in HTML and style it using CSS?Īt first this seems to be a great idea but you must realize, even with the help of a good HTML editor, you'll lack many of the features provided by DITA or DocBook and their conversion toolkits: Moreover you have heard that converting DITA or DocBook documents to deliverables looking right requires you to delve at best, into XSL, and at worst, into the arcanes of advanced conversion toolkits. However these XML vocabularies are so large and so complex that you are already discouraged. You have of course heard about DITA and DocBook and about XML Editors and Content Management Systems having built-in support for these technologies. You have already excluded the idea of using a word processor such as Microsoft Word because this documentation, besides being expected to be very large (several hundreds of pages long, hundreds of cross-references, dozens of tables and figures, an extensive index, etc), is mainly intended to be published online as a set of HTML pages. You have to write the documentation of an advanced technical product (software, hardware, service, etc) and you are not sure which technology or tool is the best choice for doing this.

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