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RE: docbook archives and workflows now!
- From: Phillip Shelton <shelton at usq dot edu dot au>
- To: 'Dave Pawson' <daveP at dpawson dot freeserve dot co dot uk>,docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org, docbook-apps at lists dot oasis-open dot org
- Date: Wed, 24 Jul 2002 13:08:22 +1000
- Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook archives and workflows now!
You might want to look at the LDP and GDP as to how they are doing it.
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From: Dave Pawson [mailto:daveP@dpawson.freeserve.co.uk]
Sent: Wednesday, 24 July 2002 10:48 AM
To: docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
Subject: DOCBOOK-APPS: docbook archives and workflows now!
This came up on another list.
Has anyone anything to say on managing K's worth of docbook files?
regards DaveP
Dan, I work for a software shop that produces a suite of integrated
products. One of our challenges is managing (relating, versioning, reusing)
the content in addition to producing print, HTML Help, and online output. We
currently store our documents in Microsoft Word. Our documentation base of
tens of thousands of topics (hundreds of thousands of pages), growing by
upwards of twelve percent a year, is fast becoming unwieldy. We would like
writers to devote more time to writing and less to file management,
imperfect .doc to .htm conversion, and manual remarkup of help files.
We are considering the DocBook technology for markup. However, I haven't run
into a description of a content or document or file management system for
DocBook books that would give us the management capability we need. Once we
have structured content, how can we work collaboratively, efficiently, and
intelligently with a large and expanding web of intricately interrelated
topics? We also need to interact with the in-house development log tracking
system. We could, of course, build a proprietary application, but such
wheels must already be turning, somewhere.
Can anyone on the list point me in a good direction?