Encourage the use of markup files as documentation in enterprise [closed]
- by linquize
To make it eaiser to do version control and diff files of documentation,
use markup files,
such as HTML: html/xhtml, XML: docbook, Wiki: markdown
to replace doc/docx.
docx is too complex and lengthy.
For html, no extra document generation required. Programmers can write html directly and end users / managers can use any web browsers to view the document.
For custom XML or Wiki formats, viewers are required to view the document or converters are used to export to pdf/doc.
Is such move becoming popular in enterprise context?
Why or why not?