Re: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help

Subject: Re: XML-based Help Authoring tools for customized help
From: "Mark Baker" <listsub -at- analecta -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Mon, 15 Dec 2003 16:17:24 -0500


France Baril wrote

> Mark, unless you are adopting the SGML version of docbook, since docbook
is a set of XML tags how are you not adopting XML?
>
> If I adopt a kid who has a dog, am I not also adopting the dog?

Put it another way. When you buy a hammer you are buying a tool that can be
used to build anything from a bookshelf to mansion.

If you buy a bookshelf you are buying something that was made with a hammer
but you are not buying a hammer. Even though the bookshelf was made with a
hammer and a manison is made with a hammer it does not follow that you can
hold a debutant ball in a bookcase. Nor can you use a bookcase to hammer in
nails.

A bookcase has the characteristics of a bookcase. It is made using a hammer
but it does not have the characteristics of a hammer.

Docbook is a specific application of XML technology with a specific set of
characterists. When you adopt it you get those specific characteristics. You
do not get the characteristics of XML.

Mark Baker
Analecta Communications



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