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<li><em>To</em>: Vern Hoxie <<A HREF="mailto:vern@zebra.alphacdc.com">vern@zebra.alphacdc.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Subject</em>: Re: working SGML package</li>
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<li><em>From</em>: Gary Lawrence Murphy <<A HREF="mailto:garym@canada.com">garym@canada.com</A>></li>
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<li><em>Date</em>: 06 Nov 1999 01:21:28 -0500</li>
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<li><em>Reply-to</em>: Gary Lawrence Murphy <<A HREF="mailto:garym@canada.com">garym@canada.com</A>></li>
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>>>>> "V" == Vern Hoxie <vern@zebra.alphacdc.com> writes:
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V> After chasing my tail around all the references given on this
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V> list, it's my opinion that there are no current tools.
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Oh-oh. You found out! Darn, and it was such a swell hoax.
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You're right. There are none. There is not even the mythical
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MS XML module for Word. None of it exists. Stop looking. There
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is nothing to find. It is a wild goose chase perpertrated by wackos
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like me who delight in distracting people.
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Seriously, yes, it is a mess with a capital M. It gets even worse if
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you want to use SGML to produce something more aesthetic than the
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dead-ugly default DocBook layout (remember, remember, it's _free_)
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... *but* it was not long ago when you could have said the same about
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C (in 1980 the only C compiler was a freebee from Dr.Dobbs), about
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object oriented programming (in 84 all I had was XLisp and a broken
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subset of Smalltalk, and in 1987 I had to reverse engineer class libs
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fetched by email from Switzerland) the web (in 1992 we had only a few
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example pages to pillage for tutorials) or Java (how many spinning heads
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did *you* write?)
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What we are seeing with XML today is the transfer of something that
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was the sole domain of large corporations being only now made
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available to the unwashed masses. You can't buy a book on DocBook
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(yet), but you can attend an XML conference in Belgium in two weeks to
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fill your ears with success stories. Pioneers are expected to roll
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their own.
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My advice: Like Linux on laptops, keep *all* your notes and make a
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name for yourself by simplifying the process and building new tools.
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Gary Lawrence Murphy <garym@linux.ca>: office voice/fax: 01 519 4222723
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