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- From: jrutledg@cs.ulowell.edu (John Lawrence Rutledge)
- Subject: Re: FrameBuilder
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- Organization: University of Massachusetts at Lowell Computer Science
- References: <19930105.062726.39@almaden.ibm.com> <1993Jan9.231359.22740@news.eng.convex.com> <ROBIN.93Jan10111434@utafll.utafll.uta.edu>
- Date: Mon, 11 Jan 1993 17:59:55 GMT
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- In article <ROBIN.93Jan10111434@utafll.utafll.uta.edu> robin@utafll.uta.edu (Robin Cover) writes:
- >The description of FrameBuilder's "SGML support" by Peter Cash is a
- >major stunner, if it is accurate. The Fall issue of <title>Frame
- >Focus</> had a lead article "Frame Joins Forces with Datalogics" which
- >said, among other things:
- >
- > FrameBuilder provides full, native support for Standard
- > Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a widely adopted ISO
- > standard for document interchange.
- >
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- I got the some line from a sales rep at UNIX EXPO back in September. So I
- arranged to become a beta test site. Unfortunatity I found out after
- getting the product and the manuals, this "full, nativbe support" only
- means it incorperates the concept of structure, but nothing more.
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- FrameBuilder allows the user to define, in SGML like sematics, the structure
- of the document. This structure definition contains all the basic operators
- including inclusions and exclusions. But even this violates the standard
- in minor ways. The generic identifiers used in their "DTD" can have up to
- 256 characters (the standard says eight) and can contain spaces.
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- The major problem with using FrameBuilder for my purposes is that there
- is no support for attributes are even reading SGML files. If you use
- FrameBuilder as it now stands, you cannot use SGML as well.
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- | | "If only it were a modern document, with a |
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- | Research Assistant | through the world data net. It was terribly |
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- | Computer Science Department | never even moved. Nor were there animated |
- | U of Mass - Lowell | arrows or zoom-ins. It completely lacked a |
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- | jrutledg@cs.ulowell.edu | would pop up just below." |
- | | from David Brin's "Earth" |
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- | | "If only it were a modern document, with a |
- | John Lawrence Rutledge | smart index and hyper links stretching all |
- | Research Assistant | through the world data net. It was terribly |
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