Re: RoboHelp 9 vs. Flare 7

[Rick Stone <rstone75 -at- kc -dot- rr -dot- com>]

Hi all

@Leonard - That's interesting. Perhaps we are just talking semantics 
here, but the "code" you pointed out seems to me to be HTML code, no?

I'm really NOT trying to instigate a flame war between the Madcap folks 
and Adobe or anyone else affected, but it would be seriously helpful for 
those of us trying to make sense of all this if we could all agree on 
some common ground when referring to these buzz terms. And I do think 
that some use them precisely as that so as to paint product N in a 
better light by claiming it's more modern because it's "XML based".

I stand to be corrected on this as I'm not really a person deeply rooted 
in XML (and I didn't stay at a Holiday Inn Express last night, so I 
can't fake being one) but it seems early on that the Flare folks were 
saying that all their content was stored as "XML" when in fact it was 
"XHTML". Now perhaps XHTML actually *IS* a valid XML format. As I stated 
earlier, I'm no XML guru. I've heard many claims that certain things 
"validate", so it must be XML. And other claims that the DTD doesn't 
reference a valid structure (or something like that) so the claim is 
invalid.

I believe RoboHelp topics (HTML Pages) are also stored as XHTML. And I 
know that the RoboHelp project files are now almost all based on the 
more open and actual XML format. I'm not a Flare user, but I'm guessing 
that Flare operates in nearly the same way.

It would just be rather refreshing to see something clearly explained in 
simple terms we can all understand instead of everyone beating each 
other over the heads with buzzwords and making nebulous claims that are 
shrouded in confusion. And I do mean all sides of this equation, not 
just one. ;)

Cheers... Rick :)



On 2/7/2012 11:14 AM, Porrello, Leonard wrote: