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Re: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help

Subject: Re: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help
From: Jan Henning <henning -at- r-l -dot- de>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Tue, 16 Dec 2003 08:48:44 +0100

You do not get the flexibility of adapting the semantic for field specific indexing and search purposes.

Sure I do: DocBook is specifically designed to be extendable, so I can add my own elements if I need them.

You do not get the flexibility of organizing the content for your specific single-sourcing needs, for example if you use tasks only in the online help and tasks and exercises in a training manual or if you want to re-order information into small modules.

Again, I can easily do that by extending the DocBook model (e.g., through custom attributes).

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.

Which is true for any XML document: It is mainly linear - that's the way XML is designed. You can interpret it as something else or transform it into a non-linear (and non-XML) form, but every XML document is by definition a linear representation of a tree structure.

Regards
Jan Henning

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