RE: RE: Interviewing "under the hood"?

[Sean Brierley <seanb_us -at- yahoo -dot- com>]

Hmmmm, print and XML? Print and HTML?

How about this, create your content in some DTP
software, set your pages any which way, and print that
to PDF and convert that to XML/HTML.

Use something like FrameMaker + WebWorks Publisher
2003 (okay, XML is a stretch there) or FM _
Scriptorium's DocFrame.

That is, if print is important to you, are you sure
XML is the correct starting point?

Cheers,

Sean

--- Dick Margulis  <margulis -at- mail -dot- fiam -dot- net> wrote:
> 
> Let me take another crack at what I see as the
> _real_ issue with this.
> 
> Thinking in XML for the moment, I might have
> something called <featurelist>, say, that defines a
> block containing some arbitrary number of
> <featurename>-<featuredescription> pairs.
> 
> Okay, now I want to render that list of features in
> different output formats--PDF, HTML, whatever. So I
> have some sort of engine (I'm vague on all this
> stuff because I haven't actually used XML for
> anything yet) that applies a transformation to my
> document (is that what XSLT means???) and outputs it
> in one format or another.

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