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Dec 1, 2005 5:40 pm
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Lisa, any luck? We will be moving legacy user docs from unstructured FM to DITA in 2006 and any recommendations for help are appreciated. Judy ...
Judy.Campos@...
Dec 2, 2005 2:41 am
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By way of Rick Jelliffe's blog, I came across mention of the following. Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and...
Hello Judy
Perhaps you missed the Xmetal/FrameMaker webinar yesterday, which talked
about that exact subject. There has been some discussion since on the...
In the past, I've argued (on XML-doc) that complex, expensive "solutions" are only going to drive the bulk of technical writers away from XML, like SGML before...
... Well, sure. Prince is a great product (we're about to purchase it), and it can certainly be used to produce a nice PDF-ready book from underlying ...
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 05:25:59 -0000, "dirtroad30534" ... That last sentence really cracks me up. ;-) Then it's educational to follow the discussion link, ... ...
Hi David, ... As it happens, the upcoming Prince 5.1 will feature a new option to process plain HTML files as well as XML/XHTML files. While it won't yet ...
Michael Day
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Dec 5, 2005 1:55 am
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I'm in favour of using HTML/CSS for writing documents. This manual (http://www.re.be/css2xslfo/1_2/manual.pdf) is an example of combining XHTML and CSS through...
Werner Donné
werner.donne@...
Dec 5, 2005 3:57 am
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... CSS is a way of hacking styling into XML or HTML pages. As any hack made by good programmers, it works well enough for many practical purposes when you...
David Tolpin
dvd@...
Dec 5, 2005 9:01 am
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... My bad... I tend to think XHTML when I think HTML, although that's often/usually not the case (at least outside a mailing list that talks primarily about...
Hi All, S1000D is emerging as the international technical documentation standard for the support of air, land, and sea systems for civil and military projects....
Hi David, ... I think that this is a very misleading description of CSS, Before the introduction CSS, the web was full of real "styling hacks", such as the use...
Michael Day
mikeday@...
Dec 6, 2005 3:30 am
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... How would you style general image or link? Consider <ulink url="http://example.org">sampla link</ulink> <imagedata fileref="photo.png"/> Current CSS...
Jirka Kosek
jirka@...
Dec 6, 2005 8:20 am
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Hi Jirka, ... Prince has its own property to define links (prince-link), which is similar to the CSS-based approach taken by Opera. Prince also supports simple...
Michael Day
mikeday@...
Dec 6, 2005 9:55 am
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... Hmm, I can't say that I like this idea when behaviour of property is defined by type of the assigned value. Wouldn't it be better to introduce new...
Jirka Kosek
jirka@...
Dec 6, 2005 10:32 am
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Hi Michael, ... I didn't want to insult. But I stand behind this viewpoint. ... Right. ... Right. ... Wrong. CSS stylesheets of most sites are where the mess...
David Tolpin
dvd@...
Dec 6, 2005 10:57 am
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Hi, XHTML and CSS alone are certainly not sufficient for printing. You always need a number of extensions. Note that even the example on the A List apart site...
Werner Donné
werner.donne@...
Dec 7, 2005 2:47 am
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... I thought your description was well written and entertaining. After reading it, however, I wasn't sure what points you were trying to make. Let's try to...
... syntactic tricks are worse. They are an end-road. No exit. Machine-oriented syntax, on the other hand, is just a base to build a human-friendly one on top...
David Tolpin
dvd@...
Dec 7, 2005 3:04 am
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... CSS 2.1 trimmed features that were not widely implmented at the time the work started. Alas, several print-related features were among those. However, the...
Some of us would have preferred s-expressions to rule -- after all, you can't get more machine-processable and expressive power than that. But the mass...
Greetings, To all of you who responded to my recent posting looking for DITA services: thank you! We have now engaged an expert to implement our project. If...
We're venturing into new territory here by taking XML from a SQL Server 2005 query (XML path) and opening and publishing the XML in Structured FrameMaker. So...
disclaimer: I'm not using SQL Server, and haven't for a while. XPath, properly speaking, is not designed for update. The output of an arbitrary XPath...
Hi there, I am afraid that you will not be able to find a detailed how-to. The environment that you are working in is critical to determining your strategies. ...
Can anyone point to a large vendor who offers a catalog of their products/services in XML format? I was thinking of biggies like Cisco or Dell, but couldn't...
I need feedback on the pros and cons of using Arbortext Editor and FrameMaker to develop SGML files and output them. I need to know if FrameMaker is really...
The Arbortext Publishing Engine is way too expensive. Regards, Paul ... From: xml-doc@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Larry Kollar Sent: Wed 12/21/2005 6:04 PM ...
