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Re: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help
Subject:Re: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help From:"Mark Baker" <listsub -at- analecta -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 15 Dec 2003 17:40:25 -0500
Jan Henning asks
> I'm not following you. Which characteristics of XML am I not getting if
> I adopt the XML version of DocBook (as opposed to the SGML version)?
XML allows you to define a set of elements and a content model for those
elements, thus creating a tagging language which can be validated by a
standard XML parser.
DocBook is a set of element defintions and a content model. You can use it
to markup the document structure of technical documents.
SVG is a set of element definitions and a content model. You can use it to
create a set of instructions for drawing scalable vector graphics.
You cannot use Docbook to define a set of elements and a content model for
those elements, so it does not have the general capabilities of XML.
You cannot use Docbook to create a set of instructions for drawing scalable
vector graphics, so it does not have the specific capabilities of all
applications of XML.
These are the capabilities of XML that you are not getting if you adopt
Docbook.
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