I'm very interested in an XMetal docbook solution for substituting Word, Frame, and a lot of other tools. My output needs are HTML, Word, PDF, and JavaHelp. ...
Hi John, ... I have to say, speaking just as an end user, I can't really see anything in Arbortext's products that suggests the basis for their development...
I haven't used it in a production environment yet, but SiberLogic integrates the XMetal editor with their content-management system and promises DocBook...
... Yes. Arbortext has been quite successful -- period. And yes, I agree that Epic is not limited to DocBook. Their products have done print and ours have not....
... Thank you, John, for introducing this aspect of the topic. Technical documentation needs to progress beyond the stage of word processing with angle...
Paul Tyson
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Mar 1, 2002 5:21 pm
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... have ... or ... needs ... you ... large ... these ... pictures. ... paradigm ... A quick toot on DITA's horn here - it's designed to give you the benefits ...
mpriestl@...
Mar 1, 2002 5:42 pm
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A couple of small points: 1) DocBook is designed to be uses as a starting point. Companies are free to create subsets, varients, etc. Ours is cleverly named...
... Beware: you won't get everything you need from XMetal, or any other XML editor. In the XML world, authoring and production are separate. You will need to...
This part I couldn't agree with more: [snipped from Paul Typson 3/1/2002] ... This hits the nail so totally on the head! And it is what dismays me the most....
sara.mitchell@...
Mar 1, 2002 7:48 pm
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... Yep emacs (again :-) Whilst playing, I use it for DTD design. whilst trialling DTD's i use it for xml editing. When in use I use it for stylesheet design...
Dave Pawson
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Mar 1, 2002 8:10 pm
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T [snipped from Paul Typson 3/1/2002] You (John) are much more optimistic than me in saying "As ... I've been monitoring this list for a long time, but this is...
Peter Crisp
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Mar 1, 2002 9:13 pm
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$Id: guidelines.txt,v 1.2 2002/01/02 10:29:51 smith Exp $ xml-doc list guidelines ... xml-doc is a mailing list where writers, developers, vendors, and others...
xml-doc@yahoogroups.com
Mar 1, 2002 11:26 pm
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... If you have a DTD, I can think of two more ways to work with "bad" markup: - Frame+SGML (I think it will whine about missing close tags but won't refuse to...
Hi, I am pretty new to SOAP. I am trying to find answer but could not get in books. It would be great if someone could explain me the difference in SOAP and...
... OK. ... the reason I'm importing into an editor is to apply the markup. ... I'm talking about the majority of my input files. Hence I always see that...
Dave Pawson
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Mar 6, 2002 4:17 am
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Extreme 2002 will be in Montreal in August. Papers for Extreme must be submitted by April 3 so there is time for: - peer review, - program selection, - paper...
B. Tommie Usdin
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Mar 6, 2002 5:08 am
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FrameMaker+SGML is not at this point fully XML compliant. If you can't use SGML, your XML will require some minor I/O processing to turn it into SGML and back...
Gentlemen, At FLIR Systems I foresee a major increase in the volume of technical documentation in the future and therefore I have done a preliminary study of ...
Not to muddy the water, but the later approach if well developed and mature is the most logical. storing Data without tags is the most effective way to get...
Bret Freeman
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Mar 7, 2002 2:49 pm
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... Opposing view. Take a mix of the modular approach of IBM, store the pieces in an xml aware data base, use xdb to query it, XSLT to present it for use, ...
Dave Pawson
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Mar 7, 2002 6:32 pm
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I would personally also vote for this. With XSLT the statement about not being able to reuse <sect1> marked content as <caption> is not valid. Or at least...
sara.mitchell@...
Mar 7, 2002 9:07 pm
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Hi, Working on a research, I need few sets of "real life" XML files. Do you have any idea where I can find such documents?! Any domain is fine (library,...
... Penta is likely to be serious overkill for your needs. It's an unbelievably powerful typesetting system, don't get me wrong -- but it's also cranky, ...
A couple of thoughts come to mind. Mats wrote: "The XML tagging is made on-the-fly when you build a publication and edit a paragraph and they use a propriety...
Barry A. Schaeffer
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Mar 8, 2002 4:44 pm
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... The one dated 7-03-2001? Little behind in your reading, eh? ===== John Posada, Senior Technical Writer Current gig ending 4/15 Resume:...
Barry wrote: "Indeed, to say that embedded tagging in text is problematical and should be replaced by some other means of identifying text content is to say...
fred.lass@...
Mar 8, 2002 7:57 pm
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... There are a lot of these. You can go to freshmeat.net, do a simple query ("xml" seems appropriate). Then scroll to the bottom of the first results page and...
Hello, one remark only, ... but you ... high end About xyvision (now called XML profesional Publisher) it can now import XML without conversion and use tags...
