Re: Multi-purpose / Single source

["T.W. Smith" <techwordsmith -at- gmail -dot- com>]

IMHO, XML is overkill  if the FrameMaker GUI or FM + WWP 2003 GUIs
efficiently do what you need. The reason I think that is I sense a
need to author in a document-unfriendly package and then add a
database and/or custom programming ... of course, I may be
overthinking the complexity of the XML stuff, but if it's not complex,
use the efficiencies FM + WWP give.

Again, IMHO.

On Tue,  4 Jan 2005 13:30:25 -0800, Sharon Burton <snip>
> XML is, in my case, too much. I'm doing much of what the original poster is
> looking for. I have 5 books, all with some or many of the chapters from the main
> book. Not all rebrands have all the product parts. Variables are used for all
> product names and product parts. It's easy to swap them out with a master file
> for each sub that only has their product names listed. I work in the main book
> until it's time to generate the rebranded subs, then I open the first rebranded
> book. I start hiding and showing conditions and swapping out variables.

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T.

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