The easiest way to validate documents before passing them into a publications process is with a parser and a text editor ideally with an error stream that is...
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xml-doc@yahoogroups.com
Mar 2, 2004 6:49 am
$Id: guidelines.txt,v 1.20 2003/06/02 01:47:07 smith Exp $ xml-doc list guidelines ... These guidelines are sent as a Welcome message to new xml-doc ...
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Eoin Campbell
eoincampbell2
Mar 2, 2004 9:25 am
If you have authors who are not familiar with the tools that support structured authoring, why would XMLmind or Serna be any improvement on...
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Oliver Meyer
ormek1970
Mar 2, 2004 10:43 am
Dear Eoin ... Eoin> If you want authors to be able to validate structures, but Eoin> avoid using structured/expensive/non-standard editing Eoin> applications,...
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Kevin Dwan
kev_dwan
Mar 4, 2004 11:50 am
I think Melvin Freeman's three-tiered classification of XML tools is useful, and I share his skepticism about Word's embrace of XML. He writes-- "If my...
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Geo. P. Luke
gluke2003
Mar 4, 2004 4:13 pm
New Book on XML and FrameMaker Apress has just published XML and FrameMaker by Bright Path Solutions' Kay Ethier. "This book is designed to teach anyone...
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kadlec
xmlia
Mar 5, 2004 12:45 am
Hi, Kevin - sorry this got so long. Questioning Word's XML intentions may be premature... I haven't read Melvin Freeman's three-tiered classification of XML...
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Kevin Dwan
kev_dwan
Mar 9, 2004 6:03 am
I haven't downloaded the trial yet, but my interest in Word 11 (and in Serna/XXE, etc.) is to get newly created documents from writers in XML-validated form....
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xml-doc@...
Mar 9, 2004 6:03 am
We are glad to announce the release candidate of Syntext Serna XSL-on-the-fly XML WYSIWYG editor for Mac OS X! In a matter of weeks, after minor cleanup, Mac...
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saqibfobia
Mar 9, 2004 6:03 am
... Hello, Here is a list of some XML editors that I found useful http://www.xml-dev.com/blog/#19 XMLWriter and XMLMind are very nice and are WYSIWYG Morphon...
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saqibfobia
Mar 9, 2004 6:03 am
Hello All, I have written a new CSS for displaying HOWTOs written in DocBook XML. Here is a sample output: http://www.xml- ...
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schaeffer.barry@...
Mar 9, 2004 2:59 pm
We have worked with the MS product as a beta for several months and find it pretty "Microsoftish." Perhaps more important, when one considers the affinity of...
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Isaac Rabinovitch
isaacrab
Mar 9, 2004 7:36 pm
... http://tinyurl.com/ -- Isaac Rabinovitch SOHO Computing: All Systems, All Software. Technical Communication: API Manuals, Programming Guides....
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Michael Smith
xmldoc
Mar 10, 2004 1:28 am
I like this one better: http://makeashorterlink.com/ --Mike :-)...
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kadlec
xmlia
Mar 10, 2004 1:31 am
Hi, Kevin - From what you described, you are asking only for a Well-Formed XML process to check formatting output from Word. All you need to do is a...
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Kevin Dwan
kev_dwan
Mar 10, 2004 1:31 am
With regard to Barry Schaeffer's comments on Word 11, "Accordingly, no matter how one attempts to move authors to XML authoring, a similar negative response...
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Isaac Rabinovitch
isaacrab
Mar 10, 2004 1:39 am
... Compare http://makeashorterlink.com/?N38121BA7 with http://tinyurl.com/28wx8 Maybe it's just me, but I like the *short* short link!...
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Isaac Rabinovitch
isaacrab
Mar 10, 2004 1:56 am
... Here's my take on how XML validation works in Word 11. MS seems to have designed it to support data-oriented applications. For example, you could fill out...
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Michael Smith
xmldoc
Mar 10, 2004 9:23 am
Good time to start learning and using Relax NG, now that it's become an ISO standard[1]. And this book is a great place to get started. [1]...
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Jason Willebeek-LeMair
oogg
Mar 10, 2004 6:01 pm
I dislike them both. They obfuscate the location of the resource being linked. I like to see where I am going before I go there. Nice way to send people into...
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Isaac Rabinovitch
isaacrab
Mar 10, 2004 6:27 pm
... Well yeah, it did occur to me after I posted that the long elaborate link was part of what Saqib was trying to show us (one website with his stylesheets,...
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kadlec
xmlia
Mar 11, 2004 1:00 am
I'll wait for the movie... Shar ... From: Michael Smith [mailto:smith@...] Sent: Wednesday, March 10, 2004 3:23 AM To: xml-doc@yahoogroups.com Subject:...
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kadlec
xmlia
Mar 11, 2004 1:00 am
Hi, Kevin The program doesn't process a DTD at all... in other words, it allows Word to output, but not input. The validation must go through .NET, not Word....
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saqibfobia
Mar 11, 2004 1:00 am
my 2 cents: Planning to use Word 11 as a XML Modelling Application (WYSIWYG Editor) is not a a good idea. There are other XML editors ( ...
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Eoin Campbell
eoincampbell2
Mar 11, 2004 9:51 am
Word 11 understands schemas, but not DTDs. I got it to import a sample DocBook XML Schema, and was then able to edit XML within the constraints of that schema....
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Isaac Rabinovitch
isaacrab
Mar 11, 2004 3:55 pm
... There's no straightforward way to do it, but then there never is. Translating from an unstructured format (even if the document is authored in a...
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johnwh@...
johnwh111
Mar 11, 2004 6:10 pm
I would enjoy hearing some feedback on the issue of how practical and/or successful companies have been with attempting a wholesale adoption of existing DTDs,...
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Saqib Ali
saqibfobia
Mar 12, 2004 3:05 am
Hello John, I wouldn't recommend re-inventing a DTD for technical documentation. DocBook is a well developed and mature DTD for technicanl documentation. You...
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kadlec
xmlia
Mar 12, 2004 3:06 am
Hi all - http://www.pdfzone.com/news/932-PDFzone_news.html Here is another way to go... I worked with Robert Glushko, Ph.D., on the ebXML initialization and...
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Bowering, Chris
chris.bowering@...
Mar 12, 2004 3:06 am
John, When we were learning how to use XML as document source, we went two ways. One project rolled their own DTD. Another project used DocBook, without ...
