Re: Database Driven Documentation

Subject: Re: Database Driven Documentation
From: "Blonde Writer" <blonde_writer -at- hotmail -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 22:46:05 +0000


A database driven authoring tool... as in the paragraph below, stolen from http://www.cherryleaf.com/single_sourcing-part3.htm

Database driven single sourcing:
Database driven single sourcing identifies grains of information as fields within a database. These fields can then be identified and assembled using a selection of queries. It is not always immediately obvious that a particular solution is making use of database technology; often the workings of the database are hidden behind a graphical user interface (GUI). You may configure your single source project simply by checking boxes and making selections from lists.



From: Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: Blonde Writer <blonde_writer -at- hotmail -dot- com>, TECHWR-L <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Subject: Re: Database Driven Documentation
Date: Tue, 29 Jul 2003 14:14:12 -0700 (PDT)

Not sure what you're asking. Are you looking for a
database driven help authoring tool or merely a means
of storing help text in a database for later use?

--- Blonde Writer <blonde_writer -at- hotmail -dot- com> wrote:
> Does anyone out there know of a product that would
> allow me to put help text
> into a database that can be queried against?

=====
Goober Writer
(because life is too short to be inept)

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