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On Friday I saw a need for a new kind of editor. The editor is for writing DITA documents and its implementation is based on creating an effective workflow, in addition to meeting the needs of an organization. As unexciting as this is, I think it is a useful tool that may be helpful. An editor such as this is very important because it implements conceptual practices that are needed by DITA. DITA is a topic based writing format that requires a good deal of abstraction between the appearance of the text and the creation of it. Technical writers often have a tough time fitting their style and ideas into this form because it takes away a good deal of control.

I want to create a small prototype that shows basic user interface details and suggests means of organizing specific workflow into the interface in a way that makes incorrect DITA impossible. In addition to basic compliance, the editor will need to provide other limitations so that documents can be further restricted to fit in the needs of editors. Nay sayers may feel this is lame, but I am somewhat excited about it as practice. Hopefully, I will make something useful.