FW: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help

["France Baril" <France -dot- Baril -at- ixiasoft -dot- com>]

Jan...

You do not get the flexibility of adapting the semantic for field specific indexing and search purposes. 

You do not get the flexibility of organizing the content for your specific single-sourcing needs, for example if you use tasks only in the online help and tasks and exercises in a training manual or if you want to re-order information into small modules. 

Docbook, is mainly linear. The basic modules are chapters. You need to make a lot of transformations to re-organize the content for many purposes.

And that's only the beginning...

-----Original Message-----
From: Jan Henning [mailto:henning -at- r-l -dot- de]
Sent: December 15, 2003 4:43 PM
To: TECHWR-L
Subject: Re: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help



> Docbook is a specific application of XML technology with a specific 
> set of
> characterists. When you adopt it you get those specific 
> characteristics. You
> do not get the characteristics of XML.

I'm not following you. Which characteristics of XML am I not getting if 
I adopt the XML version of DocBook (as opposed to the SGML version)?

Regards
Jan Henning

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