DITAmashup (structured/unstructured) example

Hi, All --

Awhile back I suggested a DITA "mash-up" structure and workflow process that I thought might be a candidate for the Drupal docs--this was based on my prior work as a DITA consultant, my reading of the Drupal doc group discussions, and my own understanding of what I assume are typical problems putting together an open-source, structured/unstructured collection of topics.

My business partner and I have put together a model DITAmashup collection on one of our sites that is accompanied by a post explaining how we did it and what we think are its benefits:

http://www.xmldocs.info

Basically he wrote a Python script to publish to WordPress through its RPC interface, and we used metadata and expanded Search to pull together the structured pages and unstructured posts in a way that we think might have possibilities in other environments. We think it would work even better in Drupal, and we plan to do that next -- probably using the same DITAinformationcenter collection.

We would love to get comments from the Drupal doc community, and I still hope to contribute to your doc efforts -- I'm at least turning my full attention to Drupal (rather than WordPress) at this point.

Thanks, Anna