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Hello Irwin,
I've just checked out Bill's reference to the FM7 Workbook series. The Building EDDs is very basic and is really for people building EDDs (and therefore DTDs) from scratch. Most people who come to me already have a DTD in mind, like DocBook, or AECMA S1000D. They main issues are how to modify the EDD to look after FM's specials like Tables, Xrefs, Graphics, marked sections (conditional text in FM), generated files, etc. If you're looking at SGML structure the Structure_dev_guide.pdf is the complete reference information, but not an easy read. If you check out this pdf you'll find that a huge part of this book is read/write rules - sometimes more of a black art than document engineering.

If you're looking at XML structures then look at O'Keefe's Structured applications course but you'll need a travel budget that's much bigger than the 550 dollars for the 1 day course.

Bottom line is that you should think of all the issues in non-structured training then multiply by ten for structured training. Just note what's around on the market in terms of books and courses - not a lot. It's a very specialized market in Europe. Check out Mekon in the UK, and Hyphendoc and Antea in France. Contact me direct if you want to take this off line.
Cheers
Ian