Re: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help

[Sean Wheller <seanwhe -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

From: "David Locke"
>
> I've been doing semantic-based markup for fourteen
years. You don't need
XML
> to do the markup. You can do the markup in MS Word,
or Framemaker using
> styles. Then, you can convert that markup directly
to XML, and once in XML
> you can manipulate it with XSLT if need be.

Yes. I think my response to David Knopf should provide
my response.

Your next statement is important. Starting with the
opening sentence:
> Sure, it isn't supposed to be done that way.
Yet we continue to see people do it the wrong way and
then cry later down
the road when they are locked-in. If XML is to be used
for authoring and
publishing then I think it should be done the right
way. That is that XML
technologies should be employed for the application of
assisting authoring
and publishing departments to factor out the problem
of technology choice.

> So put the blame where it  belongs with the users of
tools and not  the
tools.
Yes. We agree.

Sean Wheller


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