atw: XML and Word

Melanie and Chris, 
 
Wow!.. thanks for your responses. 
 
Basically I started out with experimenting with VBA for Word (know this area 
quite well) 
and it grew into toying with XML "for fun" as I got a little bored and XML 
beckoned me with its promise of 're-use of data'
Yes I hear you tsk-tsk-ing Melanie :) - i actually do have a life ... I  
think... 
 
I currently use AuthorIT at my current place of employment but in about a weeks 
time I move into a 
smaller environment where no documentation or systems have been set up.  
 
My immediate brief is to automate document production without moving to a CMS 
for the short term 
For the long term, however a CMS for Online, Print and Web output will be 
considered once we have gone through the 
'design' phase of assessing what documentation is required and what is most 
critical, and what outputs we need ie .chm, .doc, .xml, .html. 
 
What I am most interested in doing is
 
1) Using a template setup from the outset that will move cross-platform without 
too much 
reformatting etc when it comes time to import into the CMS. 
2) Finding a way to re-use text and single-sourcing via XML if I can.. still 
not 100% that I can do this without the need for enlisting the 
heavyweight AuthorIT programmers... :)
 
so thar ye go!
 
Nikki

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