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- Path: sparky!uunet!psinntp!gdstech!lab
- From: lab@gdstech.grumman.com (Larry Beck)
- Subject: Re: DTD desgin for forms
- Message-ID: <1993Jan6.142506.14300@gdstech.grumman.com>
- Reply-To: lab@gdstech.UUCP (Larry Beck)
- Organization: Grumman Data Systems-Woodbury
- References: <1993Jan6.091326.14930@nuscc.nus.sg>
- Date: Wed, 6 Jan 1993 14:25:06 GMT
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- In article <1993Jan6.091326.14930@nuscc.nus.sg> bernd@melon.iss.nus.sg (Bernd Nordhausen) writes:
- >
- >I am in the process of writing DTD's for forms, eg. tax forms, application
- >forms, etc. I think SGML is ideal for representing forms as form in SGML
- >will be more structured, and can be better queried. However, there are some
- >interesting questions that arise.
- >
- >For example, when one designs several forms, should each form have a
- >separate DTD, or should you have one general DTD with each separate
- >form an instance of that DTD?
- >
- I've had the same idea, as a matter of fact, an RFP came out last year where
- using SGML to answer the forms design part would've been perfect. Unfortunately
- we decided not to bid the thing.
-
- Anyway, I think you wouldn't need a DTD for each specific form. A single DTD
- could support a whole group of related forms. The thing I'm curious about is
- what software you'll use to process the SGML encoded forms. I don't know of any
- COTS package that does this, so you'll probably have to write something.
-
- If you know of COTS software that'll support SGML based forms, I'd like to hear
- about it.
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- Larry Beck
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