Re: Doc Book DTD?

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 11:29 AM 5/7/99 -0400, Bowlby, Garth wrote:
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>We're thinking about settling on the DocBook DTD, and building upon it as
>needed.
>But before we commit to a specific DTD and map all our paratags and
>character tags to elements, we'd like to hear opposing or supporting
>opinions from other Frame users:
>What other DTDs are Frame+SGML users using and why?
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1. DocBook is the DTD/EDD from hell. Among other things, it probably takes
the prize for being the most difficult one for authors to use. It's what you
would expect for a DTD developed by a committee, the majority of whom were
not working professional writers.

2. It's unlikely that you'll be able to successfully map the paragraph and
character tags from your existing unstructured templates to elements in
DocBook, or any other DTD/EDD for that matter. More importantly, it's
probably not the right way to go.

3. You may be interested in a paper I've produced on the subject of FM+SGML
Information Design. E-mail me a request for it, and I'll send it as a
MIME-encoded PDF file. 
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