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Re: Remembering the original XML vision


Re:  Remembering the original XML vision
On Tuesday 18 February 2003 02:14 pm, David Megginson wrote:
> Gavin Thomas Nicol writes:
>  > This is part of it, but conversion tools from Word/Frame/etc. have
>  > existed for a fairly long time... as have forms-based authoring
>  > solutions.
>
> The former have not been all that successful anywhere I've seen them
> used, despite the fact that I used to work at a company that made one
> of them.

Our experience differs then... but maybe more in degree of success. I've had a 
fair amount of success with such tools, but to me, success is mostly defined 
in terms of reduction of effort, not perfection :-) FWIW. We ship one such 
tool as part of our CMS.

> I did see one non-profit project succeed in using the built-in SGML
> support in WordPerfect for a large authoring team, but that was as
> close as I've seen anyone come.

I've seen a lot of people use Frame+SGML, and Interleaf, some folk with 
WP+SGML and I've seen people deploy Word-based systems with style consistency 
checking.

In every single case, the most important things was being able to gracefully 
handle the exceptions, because there are *always* exceptions!


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