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- From: lange@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com (Alex Lange)
- Subject: Re: FrameBuilder
- Message-ID: <1993Jan12.131750.28407@iscnvx.lmsc.lockheed.com>
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- Organization: Lockheed Missiles & Space, Sunnyvale CA USA
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- Date: Tue, 12 Jan 93 13:17:50 GMT
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- jrutledg@cs.ulowell.edu (John Lawrence Rutledge) writes:
- : 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.
- :
- : 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.
- :
- : 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.
-
- The demonstrations at the Seybold Expo in San Francisco last Fall
- emphasized FrameBuilder's rules as "content models," but "better than SGML."
-
- : But even this violates the standard
- : in minor ways.
-
- The concept of "required elements" is not enforced, merely "noted"
- by red lines (as opposed to black) in FrameBuilder's presentation
- of a document's structure. This was justified by the representative as
- in keeping with the way documents are written. For example, you wouldn't
- want to force someone to compose the introduction to a paper before
- the body was written, would you?
-
- As for "native SGML support," I realized that was an untruth when I was
- told that documents are stored in Frame's binary format.
-
- Alex Lange | Everyone spoke of
- UNIX Technical Publications | an information overload,
- Lockheed Missiles & Space Company, Inc. | but what there was in fact was
- Sunnyvale CA USA | a non-information overload.
-