Chris Harrington wrote:

>>......                       But user-created documents, in my own
>>experience, *never* contain any content semantics, nor do I see a
>>way for that to happen.
> 
> I must chime in and say that if that is the case then either A) you are not
> giving your users the right tools or B) the users have the tools but are not
> given the right incentives. This is not a tech issue but instead an issue of
> managing users needs and expectations.

Eh? I have no interest in anything anyone does with a Word document
in relation to a CMS. I do *what I described before* -- provide the
appropriate forms for entering data, which works just fine.

Documents are *created from* that data, not the other way around.

> I give my content contributors a Word 2003 template with locked styles.
> Several of the styles are for use in adding content semantics and metadata.
> And the users are motivated towards success so they use the tools as
> designed.

That said, I'd be curious to see exactly how such a template works,
assuming it demonstrates a specific knowledge domain, such as the
earlier gem example, or John Deere tractors, or any other subject. :-)

Can you provide or point to an example?

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