Bookmap or Pubmap for technical eBooks?

[jbw]

Should I plan to use BookMap or PubMap for new projects to publish technical eBooks? I'm new to DITA and it seems BookMap is actively maintained as part of the spec whereas although DITA for Publishing identified concerns with BookMap for publishing books years ago, it does not look like it is actively maintained. Is DITA for Publishing (and PubMap) currently deprecated or is it still a good choice and easy to use with Oxygen XML? Thanks for any insight you can provide.

[Radu]

Hi,

I also confirm that we have many users who use the Bookmap but I have not yet encountered one using the Pubmap specialization from Eliot Kimber's DITA For Publishers project. Also the DITA For Publishers project is outdated, Eliot has not had time to update it to the latest DITA Open Toolkit version.

Maybe you could also ask around on the DITA Users List, see what others have to say about this:

https://dita-users.groups.io/g/main

Regards,
Radu

[jbw]

Thanks for your insight Radu. Sounds like bookmap is what I need but I'll ping the dita-users group as well.