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SITE UPDATE: An XML Primer for Technical Communicators: Part One
You may not dream in PERL or know a single dialect of Geek, but XML is
something that's useful to know, even for non-programmers! Sean Hower
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Should you develop a custom DTD (build) or adapt an existing standard
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