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Re: [Query] The Future of Macromedia/Adobe RoboHelp
Subject:Re: [Query] The Future of Macromedia/Adobe RoboHelp From:"Ken Munro" <kenmunro -at- gmail -dot- com> To:"Clare Turner" <cturner -at- redflex -dot- com> Date:Thu, 30 Mar 2006 11:49:25 -0400
Hi.
But is Flare really XML-based?
I was under that impression, but when I spoke with them, they said
they only support XHTML, which is just one XML dialect. It does not
support DITA or Docbook, or any arbitrary DTD.
Thanks.
Ken Munro
On 3/30/06, Clare Turner <cturner -at- redflex -dot- com> wrote:
> This has been a frequent topic here (and pretty much everywhere in the
> industry) for months...the majority of folks who brought us RH are now
> at Madcap Software (www.madcapsoftware.com), developing Flare. Flare is
> kind of the "next gen" of RH - XML based (vs. HTML for RH). Mike
> Hamilton recently did a very complete presentation on the whole
> RH-Macromedia-Adobe story and demo-ed the new Flare s/w at our local STC
> chapter meeting.
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