Hi Austin...
Regarding your big question .. the concept of "text insets" is certainly
available in other forms. DITA provides the concept of "conrefs"
(content references) that do one up on standard FM insets in that they
can reference any level of object granularity, not just a whole file.
And with DITA 1.2 comes the concept of the "coderef" which lets you have
an "inset" to a file that contains live code, not just content from
another DITA document. As for Internet coding .. most server side
scripting languages provide the concept of an "include" which is
essentially an "inset" to another file, pulling in the content of one
file into another. You can also use AJAX to pull in content from a
database or other sources into documents on the web .. or iframes can
achieve similar functionality.
Don't get me wrong, Frame's text insets are great .. but this is
certainly available in many other formats.
Cheers,
...scott
Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892
Austin Meredith wrote:
We wouldn't even be able to use FrameMaker if it weren't for insets
(incorporations by reference). They work perfectly for us. Sometimes a
document of ours will have literally thousands of such live
incorporations by reference! --We rely on them the way a
programmer relies on calls to a Call Library.
Our big question is, when will the Internet people get smart enough to
"get with" insets, and finally grant us the same capabilities for
real-time-live-update insets in Internet coding (HTML, XML, etc.), as
have been available in FrameMaker?
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