Subject: Re: QuarkXpress backend for jade From: "Franck DELAHAYE" <franck.delahaye@xxxxxxx> Date: Tue, 09 Nov 1999 15:33:34 +0100 |
Sebastian Rahtz a écrit : > > Franck DELAHAYE writes: > > The data to be published are stored in an SQL database. SGML/XML is used > > to automatically assemble the document structures and contents from the > > database, and use an SGML converter like jade. > > So the main reason to use a publishing tools afterwords, is to make the > > layout final touches. > > final touches, yes (float movement etc), > but inclusion of new elements like tables??? > > > An SGML authoring tool is not in my opinion a good > > solution for such things. > > then why get involved with DSSSL at all? why not go straight from the > XML to your publishing tool? I'm sorry, I don't understand what you've understood here and what you mean. What I just wanted to say is that the goal of an SGML/XML authoring tool is not to make the final layout touches that one can only make by hand, is it ? > > But it can also happen that the final document needs to be customized > > for a particular customer, by adding a few texts tables graphics by > > hand, that need not to be stored in the database > > why not add them by hand in the XML file? Authors don't know, and don't want to know about SGML/XML concrete syntax. Franck. DSSSList info and archive: http://www.mulberrytech.com/dsssl/dssslist
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