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For those who have been following the single source debates, here's a site
you may want to visit:
Click on the link "Micro Document Architectures (MDOC) A new concept beyond
full-text & Document management systems". Ignore the foreign wording on the
index page; the presentation is in English. It's from an SGML conference in
1997, but it's highly applicable to today's discussions, too.
The presentation points out that documentation thinking has come in waves.
First was text-based, which began with web clay tablets. Then came
hypertext, of which HTML is probably the last somewhat pure example: no
internal structure, just text and links. Last is true structured
documentation including, in this presentation, "micro-documents" that merge
to create new ones.
If you're going to remain in one of the first two waves, it's probably best
to at least know and acknowledge that you are.
Tim Altom
Simply Written, Inc.
Featuring FrameMaker and the Clustar(TM) System
"Better communication is a service to mankind."
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