I'm not Technical. Why Should I Bother to Learn DocBook or DITA?
http://www.infinitediversity.com.au/techwriter/archives/5

Technical Writer
2006

Abstract:

First of all, understand that you don’t have to learn it. Every year more and more toolds come out that help place a layer between you and the native XML. In a few years time you will hardly even realise there is XML underneath.