Posted on March 9, 2009 by Mike Rankin
Eric is on vacation this week, so Publicious is without its resident XML g-nee-us. So in his stead, I am going to devote the week to a look at a dozen XML authoring tools. I guess I could’ve called it “XML Idol”, but I have never watched that show, so there’s too high a fraud [...]
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Posted on April 4, 2008 by Mike Rankin
Got such a good response with the hybrid InCopy-XML workflow, I felt like it was worth revisiting to go into some details. Let’s look at the task of creating a new Schema file with XMLSpy.
In The Grand Schema of Things
The whole reason I start with a Schema and not a DTD is that XMLSpy lets [...]
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Posted on April 2, 2008 by Mike Rankin
You never know where inspiration will come from. Yesterday it came to me in the form of a traffic jam slowing my ride to work. Sitting on the commuter bus, mired in “bumpa-ta-bumpa”, I stared out the window. Life on pause. I imagined the lake of gasoline that was fueling all these cars, puffing out [...]
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