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At 03:44 PM 12/4/98 -0000, Michael Kay wrote: >> I'm helping a company ... make their policies and procedures manual >> available as an online reference. I am thinking that it makes >> sense to mark >> it up as XML: it is 1000 pages and contains lots of chapters and >> subheadings. Anyway, the question is, have people gone this route yet, of >> marking up some text in XML and then streaming it to the client >> (browser) as HTML? > >Author it in XML definitely. What I would do with it then, given that this >is a static manual, is to generate HTML at publication time and store the >generated HTML on the server in the normal way. That's heresy to many on >this list, but to my mind it gives the best performance and the least system >complexity. Of course if you're planning a fancy interactive experience for >your readers the answer might be different. It's a very effective technique. There are also commercial tools like DynaWeb, Dual Prism, and SIM that will do it for you and provide high-quality search and retrieval. See the "tools" section of Robin Cover's SGML/XML Web site for pointers (<http://www.oasis-open.org/cover/>). One downside with pregenerating the HTML is that you don't get the enhanced search and retrieval that XML enables. A document like a policy and procedures manual that is presumably supporting people in critical work is an ideal candidate for highest-possible-quality search and retrieval. Cheers, E. -- <Address HyTime=bibloc> W. Eliot Kimber, Senior Consulting SGML Engineer ISOGEN International Corp. 2200 N. Lamar St., Suite 230, Dallas, TX 75202. 214.953.0004 www.isogen.com </Address> xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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