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Subject:RE: Draft then Tag, or Tag while Drafting? From:"Bill Burns" <bburns -at- qds-solutions -dot- com> To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com> Date:Mon, 7 Apr 2003 13:08:29 -0600
>I am new to drafting structured documents. Do those of you who draft
>structured documents prefer to draft the document unstructured and then
>go back and tag it, or do you prefer to insert the tags as you go?
Given that you can really write yourself into a corner if you don't write with structure rules on, I recommend that you learn to live with the inconvenience. You'll find that it goes away after a while.
I've found that some applications are better for this process than others. Structured authoring in Frame is pretty easy. In XMetaL, it's a little more cumbersome. Epic is a bit more sluggish than XMetaL. XMLSpy is downright hostile for writers, if you have a complex document structure.
Bill Burns
Documentation Supervisor/MS Help MVP
Quality Design Systems
bburns -at- qds-solutions -dot- com
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