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Feb 1, 2003 12:46 pm
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DATE: The next Tri-XML meeting is TUESDAY, February 18, 2003. TOPIC: Kevin Barkan returns to further cover the complexities of turning XML into HTML....
XML can facilitate not only the creation of documents, through for example reuse and conditional inclusion, but also their review and approval. SiberLogic has...
I have asked this questions on other tech writing related mail groups. As a tech writer, if I were to adopt XML into my authoring: 1. Where should I start 2....
Anuradha Biswas
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Feb 12, 2003 10:16 am
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Hi, interesting read. For your information the Borges CMS (http://www.mandrakelinux.com/en/doc/project/Borges/) based on XML DocBook has been implementing this...
Hi Anu, Sooner or later, everyone involved in technical writing is confronted with XML. I had the same questions as you some time ago. Two articles that got me...
In a message dated 12/02/2003 10:17:07 GMT Standard Time, anuradhab@... ... Anu, I assume that you asking the question again indicates that you didn't...
1) Where should I start Ask yourself "What problem am I trying to solve?" Then, "Will XML solve it?" The last question is the harder of the two. To answer...
Anu's question about where to start made me realise that I don't have in mind a single "ideal" book for an XML documentation beginner that I could recommend to...
I mentioned a few in my previous post: XSLT Programmers Reference, Michael Kay I think this is one of the best XSLT reference books around. Chock full of ...
Erik T. Ray's Learning XML, published by O'Reilly, is a good primer for a technical writer. Cheers, Steve Hoenisch. ... mind ... of?...
Steve Hoenisch
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Feb 12, 2003 4:41 pm
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I'll probably get my head blown off for this but .... my book "Teach Yourself XML in 21 Days" (available in French, German, Swedish, Finnish, Polish, Dutch,...
Tri-XML is the Triangle area XML users group. We meet in the Research Triangle Park area of North Carolina, which is close to both Raleigh and Durham NC. Three...
Anu I agree with Geert, DON'T LEARN XML. LEARN DOCBOOK. BE PREPARED TO CHANGE YOUR MIND SET. XML Authoring does solve many problems in the Tech Author Space,...
Thanks everyone who took so much trouble to reply to my query. Will summarize responses and send out mail soon. Thanks again. Anu SCT, India ww.sct.com ...
Anuradha Biswas
anuradhab@...
Feb 17, 2003 5:29 am
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... I'm personally not a fan of DocBook, but I very much like the idea of DocBook. That is to say, I'd encourage everyone concerned to look at DocBook and...
My understanding is that DocBook is primarily for computer documentation. Technical writers in the hardware or software industry should find DocBook useful. In...
There's also DITA (the Darwin Information Typing Architecture), which in some ways is more specific than DocBook (designed for modular, topic-oriented,...
mpriestl@...
Feb 17, 2003 6:06 pm
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Hello, I'm new to the group, so I applogize if this topic has been beaten to death previously (if so just point me in the right direction). My group is...
Ian, Other than DocBook, DITA, TEI DTD's, can you suggest others that may work well for Technical Documents. I have not found any for Technical Authoring ...
In a message dated 2/17/2003 3:41:06 AM Eastern Standard Time, ... as much as docbook leaves me cold, i do feel the need to defend it against this specific...
... Absolutely. I'm not criticising Docbook itself, but the inherent tendency of many people upon first becoming exposed to DocBook to think that it can be ...
Hi everyone, I am not sure whether this is the correct forum to ask this question but here goes. I am currently creating and XSLT file to process XML code and...
... When I had Epic last in my hands (~ 2 years ago) there were out-of-the box support for generating CHM for DocBook document types. There is also free...
Jirka Kosek
jirka@...
Feb 19, 2003 8:08 am
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... The Text Encoding Initiative (http://www.tei-c.org/) maintains what is probably the most comprehensive and best-documented DTD available. It may or may not...
Sebastian Rahtz
sebastian.rahtz@...
Feb 19, 2003 9:00 am
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Since I'm pretty blank on XML perhaps this question is obvious but why do I get an Undefined message for <root> I thought this is a reserved word in XML. By...
... In my message I did reference to TEI. But it is good to see what you think of it. ... This is a very cryptic statement. But if I decrypt it correctly, then...
... Shalom dsr18, root is quite valid in the header information of the .resx As in the example on MSDN <?xml version="1.0" encoding="utf-8"?> <root> ...
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