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The same thing happened with Microstar's Near and Far DTD management tool. It became essentially uni-directional from DTD to display. No-one could use it for production maintenance because the author's entity structure and source expression evaporated. The mistake discovered on day two of the product was the thinking that users would want to use the graphical tool for *all* of the DTD maintenance. If it had been perceived correctly that users needed to preserve their own concept of internal modularization, declaration ordering, commenting, etc., the product would have been designed differently from the ground up and found a more appropriate role in the augmentation of the development/maintenance process and not try to be the be-all and end-all of model building. Peter Flynn's recent legacy project discussion has revealed that more than 20 years later the product is still being used for visualization. And I think Tommie's coining of the term "DTD scat" still gets used (forgive me if it was one of Tommie's colleagues who came up with the term). . . . . . . Ken At 2016-05-02 21:09 -0500, Christopher R. Maden wrote: On 05/02/2016 08:56 PM, Rick Jelliffe wrote:This is what killed EBT.I think one of the limitations of the idea of grammar neutrality (ie freely translate the schema into the particular grammar available for each tool) is this lack of entity maintenance by some converters. (Not a good term) Possibly it is a bigger problem than the different power of the different grammars. -- Check our site for free XML, XSLT, XSL-FO and UBL developer resources | Streaming hands-on XSLT/XPath 2 training @US$45: http://goo.gl/Dd9qBK | Crane Softwrights Ltd. _ _ _ _ _ _ http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/x/ | G Ken Holman _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ _ mailto:gkholman@C... | Google+ blog _ _ _ _ _ http://plus.google.com/+GKenHolman-Crane/posts | Legal business disclaimers: _ _ http://www.CraneSoftwrights.com/legal | --- This email has been checked for viruses by Avast antivirus software. https://www.avast.com/antivirus
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