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Subject:TECHWR-L Premium Jobs, Events, and Announcements From:TECHWR-L Listowner <lisa -at- techwr-l -dot- com> To:archive -at- infoinfocus -dot- com Date:Thu, 24 Aug 2006 02:00:03 -0600 (MDT)
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Is XML Right for Your Company?
Alan Houser, Group Wellesley, Inc.
Rewrite or Reformat? Moving Legacy Documents to Structured
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Cindy Frakes, Borland Software Corp.
Moving Legacy Documentation to DITA
Alan Houser, Group Wellesley
Structured Authoring and Tool Selection
Bernard Aschwanden, Publishing Smarter
Case Study: Using XML to Reduce Translation Costs
Cindy Frakes, Borland Software Corp.
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