Re: Most meaningful design documents for xslt?

One of my clients is a database shop. They are in the habit of handing me
ERD diagrams (to show the relationship of the tables) and lists of field
names inside the tables. I still end up doing a fair bit of interviewing to
work out the output details, but the ERD diagrams do make a useful starting
point for the conversation. From those, I can create the schemas.

With my other clients, they tend to tell me what they want to appear in
their documents (my work is mostly document-centric), and then I ask them
where I can find that info. You can tell that I evolved my business out of
technical writing, as interviewing folks to get the information I need is
second nature to me. It's hard to do anything without a good set of
requirements (the input and output that other folks in this thread have
mentioned), so that's where I start.

I would be very interested in knowing what other folks are using, too -
great topic!

Jay Bryant
Bryant Communication Services.

Flow charting and sequence diagrams don't seem to me to be very
practical...

Thanks in advance!
Angela Williams
Angela.Williams@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx