{"id":2,"date":"2015-03-02T13:24:28","date_gmt":"2015-03-02T13:24:28","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.markgiffin.com\/blog\/?page_id=2"},"modified":"2019-03-05T21:03:11","modified_gmt":"2019-03-05T21:03:11","slug":"about","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"http:\/\/www.markgiffin.com\/blog\/about\/","title":{"rendered":"About Bizarre Jumble of Tools"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>This blog will cover topics related to documentation systems based on DITA, XML, Markdown and various other things. It is written by a certified doc tools geek.<\/p>\n<p>I hope to make the details of modern documentation systems a little less bizarre and jumbled.<\/p>\n<p>The name of this blog comes from an old email list of tech writers, several years ago. There was a discussion about a doc system that someone had developed for his client. It involved DocBook XML, some kind of source control program, the XMLMind XML editor, and a few other pieces. I thought it sounded like a lovely system, but some other person was not impressed and commented that he wanted a nice clean unified system and not a \u201cbizarre jumble of tools.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>I\u2019m happy I finally found a home for that phrase, and thanks to whoever it was that first came up with it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>This blog will cover topics related to documentation systems based on DITA, XML, Markdown and various other things. It is written by a certified doc tools geek. I hope to make the details of modern documentation systems a little less bizarre and jumbled. The name of this blog comes from an old email list of [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","template":"","meta":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markgiffin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markgiffin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markgiffin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markgiffin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.markgiffin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/www.markgiffin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":129,"href":"http:\/\/www.markgiffin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/2\/revisions\/129"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.markgiffin.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}