atw: Re: XML- a requirement for a TechWriter looking for Work?
- From: peterm_5@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx
- To: austechwriter@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
- Date: Wed, 10 Sep 2008 09:45:53 +0800
Nikki:
1. The latest HTML is a sub-set of XML (as in XHTML). If you want to
know about how to write and format material for the web, you need to
understand at least the basics of XML.
2. XML is the basis for a whole series of other communication
protocols, so if you have a need to understand and write about many
systems, it would be really handy to understand what everyone's
talking about. For example, B2B operations and databases are
increasingly using XML as the format for messages via net and
interprocess connections.
3. XML is now the basis for a whole wad of documentation
applications, Word 2007 and FrameMaker 7 and 8 and AuthorIT amongst
them. Key sub-sets of XML involved here include Docbook and DITA
XML. Because of the need to convert between different
documentation formats, there often is a need for XML to be used as a
common or intermediary format to be used in conversion processes.
That's basic starters. Meanwhile, for learning about basic XML and
some of its key sub-sets, don't go past http://www.w3schools.com .
It's pages are free, structured for learning, and have lots of
examples.
--Peter M
>If you have some time, I would like some feedback on this
presentation supplied to the QLD >Tech Writers group.
>I just thought it rather interesting that ?Learn XML? is becoming
part of a requirement >for a Tech Writer who is looking for work.
>Please can you let me know your thoughts on this and why you think
XML is essential to >being a Tech Writer.
>I am looking to write a post for my blog and I am want to poll
several technical writers >to see what their thoughts are as part of
my research.
>I want write about ?how? XML fits in the techwriter role, provide
some practical examples >where possible, what books are the best
books to learn XML, what courses are available.
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