[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message]

Re: Who Is Teaching XML To Technical Writers?

• From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
• To: Len Bullard <Len.Bullard@ses-i.com>
• Date: Mon, 13 Aug 2012 15:06:25 +0100

On 13/08/2012 14:21, Len Bullard wrote:
> If IDs are a problem for the technical writers/taggers, one might assume
> DTDs are in the mix.  Yet even as one of the world's very top experts,
> you didn't.
I certainly wouldn't assume that an attribute called "id" is declared as 
an ID unless I have evidence that this is the case, especially if the 
information about the XML comes from one of the world's very top experts.

But more importantly, I still think that seeing two duplicate IDs is not 
evidence of a problem with the way the technical writers/taggers have 
been trained, it is a problem with the tools they are using. The tools 
should stop it happening.

Michael Kay
Saxonica

• Follow-Ups:
  • RE: Who Is Teaching XML To Technical Writers?
    • From: "Len Bullard" <Len.Bullard@ses-i.com>

• References:
  • Using the concepts of Category Theory to create better XML datamodels
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • Re: Using the concepts of Category Theory to create betterXML data models
    • From: David Sheets <kosmo.zb@gmail.com>
  • RE: Using the concepts of Category Theory to createbetter XML data models
    • From: "Costello, Roger L." <costello@mitre.org>
  • OT: When Spell Checkers Strike
    • From: "Len Bullard" <Len.Bullard@ses-i.com>
  • Who Is Teaching XML To Technical Writers?
    • From: "Len Bullard" <Len.Bullard@ses-i.com>
  • Re: Who Is Teaching XML To Technical Writers?
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
  • RE: Who Is Teaching XML To Technical Writers?
    • From: "Len Bullard" <Len.Bullard@ses-i.com>
  • Re: Who Is Teaching XML To Technical Writers?
    • From: Michael Kay <mike@saxonica.com>
  • RE: Who Is Teaching XML To Technical Writers?
    • From: "Len Bullard" <Len.Bullard@ses-i.com>