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Re: XML authoring and Frame 7 competitors (was: Corel Ventura 10 released)

At 08:19 PM 10/15/2002 +0400, Dmitri Yunov wrote:
>There is also a document called "UltraXML3.1 and FrameMaker 7.0 Comparison
>Chart." =>
>http://www.webxsystems.com/Product%20Comparison%20.htm

This is a very interesting chart, mostly because it's a classic case of 
product positioning. In marketing, the trick is to frame the question in 
such a way that what you're selling is the only possible correct answer, 
and UltraXML has done a fine job of just this. Most of the featured items 
are technology- rather than result-oriented.

To wit: XSLT support
UltraXML - yes
FrameMaker - none

Why is XSLT support a requirement? FrameMaker doesn't support it, but you 
can certainly use some other tool to create XSLT separately. Once you 
generate XML out of FrameMaker, you can do whatever you want to it. Now, it 
might be nice to have XSLT support built in to your authoring tool, but 
then again, maybe you want an inexpensive authoring tool and a separate 
publishing tool.

Hierarchical formatting
UltraXML - yes (XSLT XPath)
FrameMaker - No. Does not allow the user to change the style format of an 
XML element depending on its XPath.

FrameMaker offers strong support for hierarchical formatting in the 
authoring environment via context rules in the EDD. This comparison is, at 
a minimum, a little misleading.

DTD Designer/Manager
UltraXML - yes
FrameMaker - no

True, but you can convert an EDD to a DTD

All in all, I'm not impressed with the comparison document. Something a 
little less biased and a little more informative would be nice.

Sarah O'Keefe


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