From owner-freebsd-doc Thu Jul 27 1:54: 3 2000 Delivered-To: freebsd-doc@freebsd.org Received: from anarchy.io.com (anarchy.io.com [199.170.88.101]) by hub.freebsd.org (Postfix) with ESMTP id 1F46637B828 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 01:54:01 -0700 (PDT) (envelope-from smith@eris.io.com) Received: from deliverator.io.com (root@deliverator.io.com [199.170.88.17]) by anarchy.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA03068 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 03:54:00 -0500 Received: from eris.io.com (IDENT:smith@eris.io.com [199.170.88.11]) by deliverator.io.com (8.9.3/8.9.3) with ESMTP id DAA01145 for ; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 03:54:00 -0500 Received: (from smith@localhost) by eris.io.com (8.8.7/8.8.7) id DAA02372 for FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG; Thu, 27 Jul 2000 03:53:59 -0500 Date: Thu, 27 Jul 2000 03:53:59 -0500 From: Michael Smith To: FreeBSD-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Subject: New XML mailing list Message-ID: <20000727035359.L428@io.com> Mime-Version: 1.0 Content-Type: text/plain; charset=us-ascii Content-Disposition: inline User-Agent: Mutt/1.2i Sender: owner-freebsd-doc@FreeBSD.ORG Precedence: bulk X-Loop: FreeBSD.org I'd like to announce a relatively new mailing list, XML-DOC, which has been created for general discussions related to the application of XML to technical documentation. You can subscribe to the list by sending a blank e-mail message to: xml-doc-subscribe@egroups.com You can also subscribe at the XML-DOC website: http://www.egroups.com/group/xml-doc I apologize if an announcement about XML-DOC has already gone out to this list or if most of you are already aware of it through a posting to one of the other mailing lists related to open-source documentation, but I'm trying hard to get as many interested people signed up and participating in XML-DOC as I can. Although the list is only 4 weeks old, it already has almost 600 subscribers. However, at this point, I don't think the open-source perspective is well-represented on XML-DOC, so I'd really like to encourage you all to sign up and participate if you have the time and energy for yet another list. Here's a brief description of XML-DOC that might help you decide whether you really want to sign up or not: XML-DOC is for technical writers, markup authors, XML developers, XML product vendors and systems integrators, and anyone else interested in discussing the application of XML tools and techniques to the creation of documentation, particularly documentation for computer software and hardware and for e-business infrastructure. Topics that are highly encouraged on the list: * Using XML-based content management systems * Profiling/customizing for multiple audiences/delivery formats * Using DocBook and other DTDs to create technical documentation * Transitioning to XML authoring from a FrameMaker, Interleaf, etc. environment * Publishing (transforming and delivering XML content) * Converting legacy documents to XML * Performing document analyses and creating/refining DTDs And to that list of topics, I'd like to add that some of the recent threads on the list have started out with messages titled: * DocBook and open source docs * Is XML ready for prime time? (XML v. SGML) * Topic maps: better linking Of course, XML-DOC is not intended to duplicate or supersede the purpose of the present list or any other list -- it's a forum for general discussions of XML as it relates to documentation. Hope to see some of you there. -- Mike Smith -- Michael Smith ... smith@io.com List owner XML-DOC mailing list ... http://www.egroups.com/group/xml-doc/ For discussing applications of XML to technical documentation. To Unsubscribe: send mail to majordomo@FreeBSD.org with "unsubscribe freebsd-doc" in the body of the message