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<- > Hmm - "...they probably wouldn't be writing about the <- topic..." seems to <- > imply that everyone that wants to write XML documents wants to <- write about <- > XML! I'm sure this isn't what you meant. <- <- No, I meant the topic that they are being paid to write about. <- That may be XML, <- but it would more likely be one of the millions of other topics <- that have been <- documented...:-) I presumed that's what you meant, but I can't see that there should be a relationship between writing about a topic (one of millions) and not being intimidated by markup. <- > There is an important (chestnut) <- > point here though - the people writing the documents don't <- necessarily want <- > to know about the mechanics. Anyone can build a passable web site using <- > something like Dreamweaver without knowing any HTML. i.e. <- someone has to <- > specify the structure of the XML (write DTD/Schema), and some <- poor sod has <- > to do the inputting - but they don't necessarily have to be <- the same person. <- <- Consider the creation of a set of manuals for a product. One of <- the first things <- that happens is that the documentation team gets together and <- they decide on the <- heading levels, the numbering schemes, the order of warnings in <- relation to the <- action that they warn about, use of lists and depth of nesting, <- etc. In short, <- they design the structure of the document set. All XML adds is a <- mechanism for <- checking some (but not all) of these things. XML doesn't create <- structure, it <- only formalises it. Authors already know about document <- structures - in some <- cases they know a damn sight more than the XML consultants who blithely <- recommend they use DocBook. This is fair enough, but I was responding to your point about authors not being intimidated by markup. Knowing the structure and knowing the markup aren't necessarily the same thing. Cheers, Danny.
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