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Jun 1, 2003 12:30 pm
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Hi Tim, Thanks for the script, I'll have a look at it now that I'm back from vacation. ... I largely agree, but would be interested in your opinion of the root...
Norm Walsh recently published some thoughts regarding DocBook's current current shortcomings and on what it might develop into. The first article starts out...
URLs for the articles themselves - http://norman.walsh.name/2003/05/21/docbook http://norman.walsh.name/2003/05/29/moredocbook ... [Non-text portions of this...
Hi Larry. Thanks for your feedback. ... It's not that great for two button mice either, since it's not obvious. I've since removed it and replaced it with the...
Hi, I just joined this list today. I run the Xerlin (formerly Merlot) website at http://www.xerlin.org which is an open source Java based XML editor. We've...
Over the years, I have been impressed by the extent to which the creation and exchange of any content intended as instructional (technical, legal, etc.)...
schaeffer.barry@...
Jun 3, 2003 2:36 pm
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The real value of DocBook was as a focal point for people to think about what documents are in a structured way with the feedback available tools made...
In a discussion of DocBook ... I see no failure; I see great success. DocBook has been widely used, widely emulated, and highly successful. The fact that there...
B. Tommie Usdin
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Jun 4, 2003 4:40 am
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... +1 I think its the success, possibly outside its intended sphere, that has resulted in this discussion. regards DaveP...
Being a new member of this group and I would like to tell about my software. I think that it is relevant for some of the topics of the group (like structuring...
... I'm not the list manager, but welcome anyway. :-) And thanks for alerting me to the name change, and for changing the name -- I kept referring to Merlot as...
Tim stated, "A revision of DocBook would be welcome however I doubt that it would get very far because of its "Winnebago" design (throw everything, including...
Hi all, This month I'm going right back to basics, by providing a simple introduction to what a content management system is all about. [Posted to the list at...
Hi James A number of XML editors support WebDAV, and many (but by no means all) DMS support it. Curious as to your take on WebDAV's significance, I searched...
Let's see if this post makes it. Dave Pawson has added his voice on behalf of DocBook, apparently in response to my noting that it "failed" in terms of...
... I suppose none of us would ignore the irony of the discussion's taking place on a list other than a DocBook list? However, I wonder if it isn't, in many...
ed nixon
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Jun 5, 2003 8:27 pm
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I agree with you Ed since DocBook is one of the few open, public (non-vendor) experiences with XML that also produced a useful UNIX/open source like tool but ...
... Hi Jason, WebDAV is something that I've referenced in a report I'm currently writing for our State Government. WebDAV is useful, certainly, but is very...
Hi James ... It is worth mentioning that a companion standard to WebDAV, called DeltaV, gives you full standards-based version control. And of course, WebDAV...
The articles on docbook got me interested in learning schema (as opposed to dtd). The Walsh article states that a new docbook would be better served with Relax...
Paul Tremblay
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Jun 6, 2003 4:34 am
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I have decided to start learning how to write schemas, but am baffled as to how I go about validating my XML file against the schema. With DTDs there are a...
Paul Tremblay
phthenry@...
Jun 6, 2003 4:37 am
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Here are some articles you might want to take a look at - A Triumph of Simplicity: James Clark on Markup Languages and XML ...
I commend the xmllint validator (part of libxml2) for checking an XML file against a Relax NG schema. It works well, and fast. James Clark's "jing" does the...
Sebastian Rahtz
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Jun 6, 2003 10:45 am
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... Yep, its place your bets time. ... I think you've got it right there. http://www.dpawson.co.uk/xpath2/ is a collation of why not xsd. Regards DaveP...
... Hash: SHA1 [ I've been resisting temptations to reply to the "DocBook futures" threads that I started until they settle down a bit and I have a chance to...