RE: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help

[Bruce Byfield <bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com>]

Quoting Michael McCallister <Michae -dot- McCallister -at- msbinfo -dot- com>:

> 
> Well, DocBook isn't really a tool, just a DTD. However, it should do the
> trick as far as what she wants to do, and there are tools available to
> produce valid DocBook files (I'm thinking specifically of OpenOffice--Bruce
> Byfield, is that right?). Will Frame 7? 
> 

OpenOffice.org does Simplified DocBook. Simplified DocBook is a sub-set of the 
complete DocBook, with fewer tags, so that it's easier to use. It's a popular 
open standard for documentation.

Frame 7 can export to DocBook in structured mode, but, I wouldn't suggest that 
anyone use it. Structure FrameMaker, formerly known as FM + SGML, strikes me as 
needlessly complicated. Honestly, you'd be better off with a plain text editor.

-- 
Bruce Byfield bbyfield -at- axionet -dot- com 604-421.7177

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