RE: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help

["Bill Lawrence" <scribe -at- matrixplus -dot- com>]

> And while on the topic of formatting one thought came to me. There is
a
> huge
> advantage to having a WYSIWYG interface as close to final delivery as
> possible.
> Formatting errors can be caught by a large number of contributors
instead
> of
> relying on proof-reading the final output.
> 

Well, that is the trick, isn't it?  What if you're actually creating
three separate deliverables, each of which is fundamentally different,
from the same source?  The advantage of some of the XML editors is that
you can switch stylesheets in the editor and therefore see your
formatting for each deliverable, if there's a need to do that.  Tools
like Epic and Xmetal make that reasonably simple.  I have not used Frame
in quite a while, so perhaps some of the Frame folks can comment on how
well it can do that sort of thing.

Bill Lawrence

Senior Technical Writer
Matrix Solutions


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