$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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Judy.Campos@...
Dec 2, 2005 2:41 am
Lisa, any luck? We will be moving legacy user docs from unstructured FM to DITA in 2006 and any recommendations for help are appreciated. Judy ...
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Michael Smith
xmldoc
Dec 2, 2005 9:32 am
By way of Rick Jelliffe's blog, I came across mention of the following. Document Engineering: Analyzing and Designing Documents for Business Informatics and...
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Roger Shuttleworth
shuttie27
Dec 2, 2005 1:55 pm
Hello Judy
Perhaps you missed the Xmetal/FrameMaker webinar yesterday, which talked
about that exact subject. There has been some discussion since on the...
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dirtroad30534
Dec 4, 2005 5:26 am
In the past, I've argued (on XML-doc) that complex, expensive "solutions" are only going to drive the bulk of technical writers away from XML, like SGML before...
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David Sewell
david_sewell
Dec 5, 2005 1:25 am
... Well, sure. Prince is a great product (we're about to purchase it), and it can certainly be used to produce a nice PDF-ready book from underlying ...
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Jeremy H. Griffith
jeremyomsys
Dec 5, 2005 1:45 am
On Sun, 04 Dec 2005 05:25:59 -0000, "dirtroad30534" ... That last sentence really cracks me up. ;-) Then it's educational to follow the discussion link, ... ...
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Michael Day
mikeday@...
Dec 5, 2005 1:55 am
Hi David, ... As it happens, the upcoming Prince 5.1 will feature a new option to process plain HTML files as well as XML/XHTML files. While it won't yet ...
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Werner Donné
werner.donne@...
Dec 5, 2005 3:57 am
I'm in favour of using HTML/CSS for writing documents. This manual (http://www.re.be/css2xslfo/1_2/manual.pdf) is an example of combining XHTML and CSS through...
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David Tolpin
dvd@...
Dec 5, 2005 9:01 am
... CSS is a way of hacking styling into XML or HTML pages. As any hack made by good programmers, it works well enough for many practical purposes when you...
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Larry Kollar
dirtroad30534
Dec 5, 2005 9:29 pm
... My bad... I tend to think XHTML when I think HTML, although that's often/usually not the case (at least outside a mailing list that talks primarily about...
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Joel Amoussou
joel_xml
Dec 6, 2005 2:06 am
Hi All, S1000D is emerging as the international technical documentation standard for the support of air, land, and sea systems for civil and military projects....
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Michael Day
mikeday@...
Dec 6, 2005 3:30 am
Hi David, ... I think that this is a very misleading description of CSS, Before the introduction CSS, the web was full of real "styling hacks", such as the use...
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Jirka Kosek
jirka@...
Dec 6, 2005 8:20 am
... How would you style general image or link? Consider <ulink url="http://example.org">sampla link</ulink> <imagedata fileref="photo.png"/> Current CSS...
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Michael Day
mikeday@...
Dec 6, 2005 9:55 am
Hi Jirka, ... Prince has its own property to define links (prince-link), which is similar to the CSS-based approach taken by Opera. Prince also supports simple...
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Jirka Kosek
jirka@...
Dec 6, 2005 10:32 am
... Hmm, I can't say that I like this idea when behaviour of property is defined by type of the assigned value. Wouldn't it be better to introduce new...
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David Tolpin
dvd@...
Dec 6, 2005 10:57 am
Hi Michael, ... I didn't want to insult. But I stand behind this viewpoint. ... Right. ... Right. ... Wrong. CSS stylesheets of most sites are where the mess...
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Werner Donné
werner.donne@...
Dec 7, 2005 2:47 am
Hi, XHTML and CSS alone are certainly not sufficient for printing. You always need a number of extensions. Note that even the example on the A List apart site...
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Håkon Wium Lie
howcome_doceng
Dec 7, 2005 2:48 am
... I thought your description was well written and entertaining. After reading it, however, I wasn't sure what points you were trying to make. Let's try to...
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David Tolpin
dvd@...
Dec 7, 2005 3:04 am
... syntactic tricks are worse. They are an end-road. No exit. Machine-oriented syntax, on the other hand, is just a base to build a human-friendly one on top...
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Håkon Wium Lie
howcome_doceng
Dec 7, 2005 10:21 am
... CSS 2.1 trimmed features that were not widely implmented at the time the work started. Alas, several print-related features were among those. However, the...
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Peter Ring
peter17ring
Dec 7, 2005 1:03 pm
Some of us would have preferred s-expressions to rule -- after all, you can't get more machine-processable and expressive power than that. But the mass...
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Lisa Dyer
l_j_dyer
Dec 8, 2005 1:59 am
Greetings, To all of you who responded to my recent posting looking for DITA services: thank you! We have now engaged an expert to implement our project. If...
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Jan Tharp
jt_1413
Dec 13, 2005 3:31 pm
We're venturing into new territory here by taking XML from a SQL Server 2005 query (XML path) and opening and publishing the XML in Structured FrameMaker. So...
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Mitch Amiano
mcamiano
Dec 14, 2005 11:27 pm
disclaimer: I'm not using SQL Server, and haven't for a while. XPath, properly speaking, is not designed for update. The output of an arbitrary XPath...
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Dowdell Charles
chazd13736
Dec 16, 2005 2:53 pm
Hi there, I am afraid that you will not be able to find a detailed how-to. The environment that you are working in is critical to determining your strategies. ...
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Gina Cicotello
ginacico
Dec 21, 2005 4:03 am
Can anyone point to a large vendor who offers a catalog of their products/services in XML format? I was thinking of biggies like Cisco or Dell, but couldn't...
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kristieannhall
Dec 21, 2005 4:42 pm
I need feedback on the pros and cons of using Arbortext Editor and FrameMaker to develop SGML files and output them. I need to know if FrameMaker is really...
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Larry Kollar
dirtroad30534
Dec 21, 2005 5:04 pm
... This is a topic that springs up from time to time... the most recent discussion was back in March. Start here: ...
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Paul Hermans
hp7359rm
Dec 21, 2005 6:02 pm
The Arbortext Publishing Engine is way too expensive. Regards, Paul ... From: xml-doc@yahoogroups.com on behalf of Larry Kollar Sent: Wed 12/21/2005 6:04 PM ...
