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RE: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help
Subject:RE: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help From:"France Baril" <France -dot- Baril -at- ixiasoft -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:11:48 -0500
Great way of doing it... I'll stick to me 2 first arguments then!
I think I was mislead because the only time I used docbook was within the FrameMaker environment where chapters were my smallest document unit and I wanted to be able to have sections in multiple documents. We're back on the tool track. Sorry!
-----Original Message-----
From: Bill Lawrence [mailto:scribe -at- matrixplus -dot- com]
Sent: December 15, 2003 5:05 PM
To: France Baril; 'TECHWR-L'
Subject: RE: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help
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> 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...
>
Actually, that's not true. The basic modules are what you wish them to
be. In my case, I use <section> as the basic module, and since it can
nest within itself, that works out very well. I reference my modules to
build up documents with the necessary higher level structure, such as
chapters and books if that's appropriate. I use attributes to denote
what goes into a reference guide, what goes into training materials, and
what goes into online help. I also use attributes to denote types of
users. Having a rich set of attributes to work with, and section as the
basic module, allows me to pretty much build anything one can imagine.
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