Re: Multi-purpose / Single source

[TechComm Dood <techcommdood -at- gmail -dot- com>]

It's only overkill if you're rolling your own solution that does the
same as an existing pre-fab solution. But, if you plan to leverage XML
for other purposes, then it does make sense to go that route.


On Tue, 4 Jan 2005 16:36:35 -0500, T.W. Smith <techwordsmith -at- gmail -dot- com> wrote:
> 
> 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.

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