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Doing XML in Frame

Yes, Ari and Brad! Yes, yes yes.

Brad says XML is the wave of the future, Ari's one word is XML. Our shop is
pretty trailing edge, but even for us a good usable and print-oriented XML
editor is an important missing link in documents we are developing now.

We awaited 5.5.6 with eagerness because it trumpeted XML support (we use
both Frame and +SGML) but the XML support ain't there. Neither Frame nor
Frame+SGML can read any kind of XML file and FM+SGML can't write a valid
one. Nor can it write an XML DTD from an EDD.

How hard can this be? XML is just SGML without some complicated bits (which
Frame doesn't support well or at all anyway) plus Unicode character/glyph
encoding.

In the meantime, what is the competition up to? Anyone know about XML
support in Word, Ventura, Interleaf or 3B2? Or are there some new
ground-breaking products that we should be looking at?

Mark Barratt


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