[TriLUG] docbook, technical writing and the STC

[Mark Johnson]

On Tuesday, May 28, rpjday wrote:
> 
>   for those interested in technical writing, there is an organization
> called the society for technical communication (www.stc.org).  i'm
> wondering if their mandate extends to things like docbook, xml and
> the like.

I do know that Tri-XML (of which I'm president) and STC will be having
a joint meeting sometime in October or November. The talk will be
about tools for documenting dtds and stylesheets. Some examples of
what I'm talking about can be found at the following links:

DTD documentation generators
============================

  DTDParse
  --------
  (Homepage) http://nwalsh.com/perl/dtdparse/index.html
  
  (My customized version)
  http://dulug.duke.edu/~mark/docs/dtds/docbook/xml/full/4.1.2/

  
  LiveDTD
  -------
  http://www.sagehill.net/livedtd/docbookxml41/

  
  perlSGML (no examples)
  --------
  http://www.oac.uci.edu/indiv/ehood/perlSGML.html
  
  
  dtd2html (modified version of perlSGML)
  -------
  http://www.utoronto.ca/webdocs/HTMLdocs/HTML_Spec/xhtml1-transitional/DTD-HOME.html
  
  
  
And an XSL stylesheet documentation generator
=============================================
  
  Xsldoc
  ------
  http://www.xsldoc.org/web/example/docsB/index.html


FWIW, Tri-XML has also scheduled (tentatively) a meeting/presentation
for Tuesday, June 18th at Duke at which I'll give a talk on the
DocBook website package - which is simply a customization of DocBook
XML. However, we're still waiting for confirmation for the meeting
venue.

My gut feeling is that the STC isn't very DocBook-centric, but is very
interested in learning more about it. 

Mark

> 
>   based on their web page, there is a local chapter at nc state,
> but the web link results in a broken page.
> 
> rday
> 
> _______________________________________________
> TriLUG mailing list
>     http://www.trilug.org/mailman/listinfo/trilug
> TriLUG Organizational FAQ:
>     http://www.trilug.org/~lovelace/faq/TriLUG-faq.html

-- 
_____________________________________
Mark Johnson        <mark at duke.edu>
Debian SGML         <mrj at debian.org>
Home Page:          <http://dulug.duke.edu/~mark/>
GPG fp: 50DF A22D 5119 3485 E9E4  89B2 BCBC B2C8 2BE2 FE81