Re: Giving up on XML

["Gene Kim-Eng" <techwr -at- genek -dot- com>]

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "Janice Gelb" <janice -dot- gelb -at- sun -dot- com>

> Any writer
> who is as determined to follow his or her own
> vision of what documents should look like to
> the extent of the hacking you predict above
> would be likely to leave a company that is
> using such tools rather than going to such
> efforts to circumvent the authoring/publishing
> system. 

If you're lucky, yes.  If not, said writer will, in the
absence of decisive management, flood every staff
meeting with a never-ending stream of proposals
to revise the document formats that will all but
hijack every session.  Been there, dealt with that.
Sometimes there's just no replacement for handing
out reviews with "not meeting minimum requirements" 
boxes strategically checked off on objectives
relating to following established processes and
working well in teams..

"David Neeley" <dbneeley -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote 

> It's really very simple--if the styles are not 
> adequate, then *change the style* instead of 
> overriding it!

Fasten your seatbelts, staff meetings are going
to be a bumpy ride. :)

Gene Kim-Eng
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