On Tuesday 18 February 2003 09:30 am, David Megginson wrote:
> The real problem is that neither SGML nor XML is particularly easy for
> authors to use and understand. In the data world, we can remove much
> of the unfamiliarity by using input forms, but in the document world,
> authors have to learn the whole new world-view of generic markup even
> if they do have nice, GUI-based, WYSIWYMG editors to hide the pointy
> brackets.
This is part of it, but conversion tools from Word/Frame/etc. have existed for
a fairly long time... as have forms-based authoring solutions.
Personally, in terms of electronic publishing of structured documents, I think
we've taken a pretty significant couple of steps backward. I'm biased though.
