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Subject: RE: Re[2]: DOCBOOK: General roadmap questions
<snip>There are other vendor choices than the ones that were suggested to you. In some ways ArborText's products could be said to be the best, but I don't know that they are best for anyone starting out with *ML, or being the main tool if XML is your orientation. You might like Adobe's FrameMaker+SGML, or SoftQuad's XMetaL, since I think it's fair to say both are simpler to start using DocBook with .. FrameMaker+SGML out-of-the box comes with a DocBook set-up, although not the most recent. If you want non-XML-gurus (ordinary engineers, or marketing people) to edit content, we've found that XMetaL is a very good choice - we actually recommend adding XMetaL tool to FM+SGML workgroups to some customers.</snip> We HATED XMetal, here, HATED it. We used it for mark up for a few months and everyone was deeply annoyed by the UI. We're using Arbortext, which has some limitations, but really is the best I've seen for XML publishing and authoring. One of the folks on my team has been using the Beta for XML Instance, put out by Extensibility (they make XML Authority, which we use for building DTD's and like a lot) and says it's okay - it's out of beta now, I think you can get a free download from their site. We reviewed Frame but decided not to use it because you have buy all these third party plug ins to make it a true XML enabled solution. I'm sorry I can't be more specific about that, it was a while back and I don't remember the details. But I do remember how much we all HATED Xmetal. In addition, while Arbortext is a little slow getting back to me sometimes, their support has been excellent. The SoftQuad folks were kind of a drag to do business with.
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