Hello! My personal opinion is that you should embed xxe in a more complete authoring workshop (as it is under Windows), say using java tools, as xxe is easily embedable within java. I made so under Linux, but it is yet under construction. There are several tools in the open software world that are MS-like, but ama not so well integrated. In counter part, MS does not have all of a complete set of tools alone, example for multilinguage (for which there is Borges in the docbook world, and Borges could work with xxe) or version controls, not saying about all the non standards and proprietary formats that you could not get automated. Even if they use XML, which seems open, their dtd will remain proprietary, which is finally not a revolution, ama just oportunism... So, I use xxe with cvs / tkcvs (user interface), dia, xfig, gimp, staroffice / openoffice for drawing & presentation, and Norman Walsh's xsl-stylesheet, saxon & fop for publication (java tools), along with a file system tree and some script shell (but it could be better to use makefile). As I'm first writing in french, I did not find any grammar checker (even for english & xxe/docbook). You could use xxe for articles or books, but I think docbook is not for stand alone authoring, but for larges standardized documents (ex. KDE help or Sun Solaris doc), multi user, eventually multi languages work, and you have to design a business process for using it. Hope this helps Michel:-)
Kenneth Johansson a ?crit: >Hi, > >Our organization is migrating from Word to XML. I've suggested DocBook and >XXE. We have been testing DocBook and XXE for some time and our test persons >are beginning to get used to XXE. However, since Word 2003 has been released >I'm beginning to meet some resistance in using DocBook and XXE. I need some >help to shoot some of their arguments to pieces: > >* Images and vector graphics. We're using Word to produce Visio-like >graphics, flowcharts, software design, network overviews etc. >Is it difficult to create a "one mouse-click solution" in XXE, e.g. click on >the image and the appropriate editor opens? The XSL tools can't >automatically handle wmf-files which makes it necessary for a conversion to >svg or jpeg before processing the xml. A possible way is to create graphs in >PowerPoint (already have a license), save as .wmf, convert to svg/jpg/etc >with "libwmf" and insert image in XXE. Best way would be to be able to >insert and show a .wmf file in XXE. > >* Spell checking. Is it possible to add additional dictionaries for spell >checking? > >* Grammar checking. Feature request. > >Do you have any ideas/arguments that might convince my co-workers to use XXE >instead of Word 2003? > >One of my strongest arguments is that writers no longer need to meddle with >layout since working with xml, css and a dtd provides structure and layout >for you. Another strong argument is that by using a dtd a writer is >constrained to use what ever elements available in the dtd. That brings me >to another question. Is it possible in XXE to remove unwanted elements in >the DocBook dtd or do I have to do it by hand in the dtd? > >Do you know anything bad about WordML? :D > >Thanks for your help! > >/Kenneth > > > > > >-------------------------------------------------------- >Kenneth Johansson Technical Documentation Manager >Sectra Imtec AB >Teknikringen 20 E-mail: ke-joh AT sectra DOT se >SE-583 30 Link?ping Phone: +46 13 23 52 00 >SWEDEN Web: http://www.sectra.se > >-- >XMLmind XML Editor Support List >xmleditor-support at xmlmind.com >http://www.xmlmind.com/mailman/listinfo/xmleditor-support > > >
