Re: SGML was Re: Word and amazon.com (was: PDF a "book" of Word files )

[eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com]

"Clark F. Morris, Jr." <cfmtech -at- istar -dot- ca> wrote on 10/09/2003 11:58:34 AM:

> In regard to the postings below, for the formatting part,
> that is why
> SGML (standardized general markup language) was in
> invented.  I think
> that the various governments and major organizations missed an
> opportunity to make their organizations less dependent on specific
> vendors for word processing and desktop publishing.  I
> believe Corel's
> Word Perfect 11 will store and retrieve SGML documents.

That's actually quite funny. Even though the DTDs are openly available, Adept
has locked up the market for the production of military documentation. Once a
deliverable becomes sufficiently complex, you may not be tied to a specific
publishing solution vendor, but often it's cheaper to go with an existing
solution than develop your own.

Even in aviation where there are packages available for FrameMaker to meet the
ATA2000i requirements you're pretty stuck with Hobson's choice. The Mekon
package retails in the five figure US$ range.

Eric L. Dunn
Senior Technical Writer



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