The easiest way to validate documents before passing them into a publications process is with a parser and a text editor ideally with an error stream that is...
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If you have authors who are not familiar with the tools that support structured authoring, why would XMLmind or Serna be any improvement on...
Dear Eoin ... Eoin> If you want authors to be able to validate structures, but Eoin> avoid using structured/expensive/non-standard editing Eoin> applications,...
I think Melvin Freeman's three-tiered classification of XML tools is useful, and I share his skepticism about Word's embrace of XML. He writes-- "If my...
New Book on XML and FrameMaker Apress has just published XML and FrameMaker by Bright Path Solutions' Kay Ethier. "This book is designed to teach anyone...
Hi, Kevin - sorry this got so long. Questioning Word's XML intentions may be premature... I haven't read Melvin Freeman's three-tiered classification of XML...
I haven't downloaded the trial yet, but my interest in Word 11 (and in Serna/XXE, etc.) is to get newly created documents from writers in XML-validated form....
We are glad to announce the release candidate of Syntext Serna XSL-on-the-fly XML WYSIWYG editor for Mac OS X! In a matter of weeks, after minor cleanup, Mac...
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... Hello, Here is a list of some XML editors that I found useful http://www.xml-dev.com/blog/#19 XMLWriter and XMLMind are very nice and are WYSIWYG Morphon...
We have worked with the MS product as a beta for several months and find it pretty "Microsoftish." Perhaps more important, when one considers the affinity of...
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Hi, Kevin - From what you described, you are asking only for a Well-Formed XML process to check formatting output from Word. All you need to do is a...
With regard to Barry Schaeffer's comments on Word 11, "Accordingly, no matter how one attempts to move authors to XML authoring, a similar negative response...
... Here's my take on how XML validation works in Word 11. MS seems to have designed it to support data-oriented applications. For example, you could fill out...
I dislike them both. They obfuscate the location of the resource being linked. I like to see where I am going before I go there. Nice way to send people into...
... Well yeah, it did occur to me after I posted that the long elaborate link was part of what Saqib was trying to show us (one website with his stylesheets,...
I'll wait for the movie... Shar ... From: Michael Smith [mailto:smith@...] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:23 AM To: xml-doc@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
Hi, Kevin The program doesn't process a DTD at all... in other words, it allows Word to output, but not input. The validation must go through .NET, not Word....
Word 11 understands schemas, but not DTDs. I got it to import a sample DocBook XML Schema, and was then able to edit XML within the constraints of that schema....
... There's no straightforward way to do it, but then there never is. Translating from an unstructured format (even if the document is authored in a...
I would enjoy hearing some feedback on the issue of how practical and/or successful companies have been with attempting a wholesale adoption of existing DTDs,...
Hello John, I wouldn't recommend re-inventing a DTD for technical documentation. DocBook is a well developed and mature DTD for technicanl documentation. You...
Hi all - http://www.pdfzone.com/news/932-PDFzone_news.html Here is another way to go... I worked with Robert Glushko, Ph.D., on the ebXML initialization and...
John, When we were learning how to use XML as document source, we went two ways. One project rolled their own DTD. Another project used DocBook, without ...
