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To: "Andersen, Verner" <verner.andersen@xxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re: OT: XML in the real world
From: larry.kollar@xxxxxxxxxx
Date: Tue, 25 Jun 2002 08:36:07 -0400
Cc: "'FrameMaker discussion list (omsys)'" <framers@xxxxxxxxx>, "'Framers list'" <Framers@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sender: owner-framers@xxxxxxxxx
Verner Andersen wrote: > ... I have the feeling that XML is not that much > used for outputs to both paper and online formats > like DHTML and MSHTML. Given that DocBook has an XML version, I wouldn't be so sure about that. :-) > Have you come further than the "guided editing > stage", i.e. have you made XSLT stylesheets? I did, as part of an experimental project. I've developed a structured template for our documentation, and decided to learn XSLT instead of WWP-SE for converting to online. [Quadralay's refusal to port the Pro version to MacOS was one reason, a personal desire for standards-based solutions was another.] I saved the book as XML, used a Perl script to clean up minor details, then used XSLT to transform to HTML. Once I got it working, I could put a ~100-page manual on an internal website in about five minutes. > I see a lot of examples from companies selling tools and solutions. Many of whom have a stake in making XML seem a lot more complex than it really is. ;-) -- Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS "Content creators are the engine that drives value in the information life cycle." -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc ** To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@omsys.com ** ** with "unsubscribe framers" (no quotes) in the body. **