MIF to SGML/XML

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Scott,

Confidence is gained from experience. I have confidence in MSXML because I 
have used it successfully in dozens of my scripts. I have not heard a single 
complaint from any of my clients that have it installed. If you discount 
software just because it is from Microsoft, you will miss out on some good, 
time-saving, production tools. Any big software company is going to have 
some junk (Apple and Adobe included), but I don't like to "throw out the 
baby with the bath water," as they say.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com


> You have more confidence in Microsoft than I do then.
>
> Scott
>
> At 10:16 AM -0400 9/4/08, martin.smith at golehtek.com wrote:
>>Hi all,
>>
>>Rick isn't talking about using the Word XML document format in this
>>case. He is talking about using the MSXML Active X control that is
>>built into windows.
>>
>>FrameScript can pass instructions to this control, which opens up the
>>ability to generate custom XML directly from FrameMaker, as well as to
>>perform operations using XPath and XQuery. You can also use the
>>control to reconstruct FrameMaker documents from XML.
>>
>>I personally use the MSXML control to produce XML-based embedded help
>>systems for database-driven, web-based applications. FrameScript
>>enables me to encode select elements of a structured document in XML,
>>perform XSL transforms, and push the XML directly into an Oracle
>>database.
>>
>>Best regards,
>>
>>Martin
>>
>>Martin R. Smith
>>www.golehtek.com
>>
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