Re: [doc-mgmt] Standardized XML format for OASIS documents ordocument metadata

[Norman Walsh <ndw@nwalsh.com>]

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/ Matthew MacKenzie <matt@mac-kenzie.net> was heard to say:
| I'm a big fan of  using something like DocBook XML to author specs,

I'm a fan too, which should come as no surprise. :-)

| and have the OASIS system manage all of the XSL to dynamically deliver
| the document,

That could be done.

| but to do this sort of thing requires OASIS to provide a
| license to some sort of WYSIWYG tool to all OASIS editors.

Yes, that's an issue.

| I've tried and failed to get various OASIS'ers to use docbook, they
| always complain that it is to complicated...and it is too complicated
| for 90% of us.

Have you looked at Simplified DocBook? It has only about 100 elements
(and if you ignore all the table and bibliographic metadata ones,
considerably fewer).

                                        Be seeing you,
                                          norm

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