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Henrik Martensson scripsit: > It should also figure out that since I am Swedish, it is > likely that I do not want to be called by my first name, but by my > middle one. Interesting. This is really true in general? How did it come to be so? > In one case I was involved in, an author wrote his own DTD with more > than 200 elements, and refused to use anything else. Of course, it > wasn't possible to support his private DTD in all processing > applications in the company, or even build a filter system just for him, If he was really committed to it, then you have to ask if he's worth more to the company dead or alive. :-) If the latter, then XSLT is your friend. > My experience is that well over two thirds of all markup change requests > in corporate projects are unnecessary. The desired functionality can be > implemented much more cheaply and efficiently without changing the > markup. In many cases, the functionality already exists, it is just that > the users get no training, so they do not know about it. Well, of course that's a disaster, and companies that live or die by documentation will eventually die if they don't fix it. But most companies could care less about documentation -- it's a cost center -- and instead train their sheeplike users not to expect -- demand -- it. -- One Word to write them all, John Cowan <jcowan@r...> One Access to find them, http://www.reutershealth.com One Excel to count them all, http://www.ccil.org/~cowan And thus to Windows bind them. --Mike Champion
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