... 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...
5538
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...
5539
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...
5540
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...
5541
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...
5542
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. ...
5543
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...
5544
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...
5545
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 ...
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Peter Ring
peter17ring
Dec 22, 2005 10:24 am
You might want to start your search by looking for trade portals, rather than suppliers catalogs. Big corporations and public administrations set up their own...
5548
Peter Ring
peter17ring
Dec 22, 2005 10:55 am
Depends on what "and output them" means. If you just want to edit and otherwise manage SGML files, you won't have much use for what FrameMaker is really good...
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Danny Vint
dvint1_99
Dec 22, 2005 8:41 pm
Another alternative not mentioned is to try some of the other XSL tools out there - RenderX and Antennahouse make useful products and there is the APache FOP...
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G. Ken Holman
g_ken_holman
Dec 23, 2005 2:11 am
... Another interesting commercial XSL-FO engine is Ibex at http://www.xmlpdf.com that offers a $0 runtime fee because they only charge per developer (not per...
5551
Andrew Becraft
andrew_becraft
Dec 23, 2005 6:44 pm
Hi kristieannhall, I asked similar questions on the FrameMaker users lists back in October. My company is currently using XMLmind XML Editor to author DocBook...
5552
Steve Whitlatch
steve_whitla...
Dec 24, 2005 4:02 am
Andrew Becraft's post (below) is an excellent "Executive Summary" of the Arbortext vs FrameMaker situation. I know there are experts who read this list, so, as...
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Bill Lawrence
firstsigbn
Dec 29, 2005 6:11 pm
Given that we're about to purchase a bunch of additional XML editor licenses, this discussion is particularly relevant to me. Currently, we're using Epic to...
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Danny Vint
dvint1_99
Dec 29, 2005 6:44 pm
I would look at the 3B2 solution that Arbortext now provides. I saw a presentation where the client wanted final control of the page layout like you are...
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alokndel
Dec 30, 2005 12:29 pm
Hi I'm writing this email to get suggestions from content management experts in this forum. I'm trying to set up a tagging framework in my company so that API...
