I am not sure about the Arbortext styler. ECrion also generates XSLT
code in the background. It generates XSL:FO in the background and you
can either choose to do everything on the Designer or, Can do the XSLT
Coding yourself.. the designer helps you to do s preview of the
output, as you carry on developing your stylesheet.
Hope this helps.
Vasu
On 26 May 2012 23:35, Dan Vint <dvint(_at_)dvint(_dot_)com> wrote:
Sounds like it might be similar to Arbortext Styler, which now that I think
of it might be the way to go ultimately. It would allow me to generate the 3
formats that I need including the editing environment. My only problem with
the Styler approach is that I have to buy a new tool, where XSLT I can code
anywhere.
I hadn't heard of Ecrion, I'll have to look into them.
..dan
At 03:07 PM 5/26/2012, you wrote:
There are things you can do programmatic to manage the code.
I recently came across this tool called Ecrion .. I thought this was
cool as you can design one front ( PDF / HTML Etc) in the designer and
ask the designer to produce the HTML/PDF/Text outputs.. This was cool.
The only problem with this is ofcourse, if the designs are different
for HTML and for PDF and the text. in which case, you will have to
redesign .. But if they are simple designs, then it does work a
magic.. May not be completely in context with the original question,
but nevertheless, worth its GBP 0.02 ...
On 26 May 2012 22:18, Dan Vint <dvint(_at_)dvint(_dot_)com> wrote:
The publication module may be a key difference. The current tools manage
the
content of the publication through an interface and proprietary XML
format.
So their graphical interface is used to organize the content and then
publish it. This is easy for the writers to use, but it doesn't allow me
to
introduce any processing of my own. Anything I add has to be done after
the
fact.
..dan
At 01:40 PM 5/26/2012, you wrote:
Hi Dan,
I am working in a similar environment, except we use 2 different sets
of
stylesheets, but have many imported/included stylesheets shared across
the
IETM and PDF. Like you, we have a S1000D input to publish a
MIL-STD-40051
output. As you know the 40051 output covers a number of different
Technical
Manuals (PDF output). We have over 15 Publication Modules which share
over
1000 data modules. We use a "pipeline" approach like you do. We have
been
doing this for 2 years with great success. Managing 2 sets of
stylesheets
for 2 completely different outputs is manageable. In fact, I prefer it
this
way. But trying to great a single set of stylesheets to output 2
completely
different outputs (IETM or PDF) would be a nightmare to manage (IMO).
Phil
On May 26, 2012, at 4:05 PM, Dan Vint wrote:
I have at least 3 environments that I need to keep consistent.
1) Arbortext editing environment
2) IETM output as HTML
3) 3rd party application that merges the data modules together into
one
XML file that is then processed to make the PDF. Originally designed
to be a
mil-spec manual output but typically now just used for review copies
where
the requirement is to make it more like the IETM output.
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