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In article <ROBIN.93Jan10111434@utafll.utafll.uta.edu> robin@utafll.uta.edu (Robin Cover) writes:
>The description of FrameBuilder's "SGML support" by Peter Cash is a
>major stunner, if it is accurate.  The Fall issue of <title>Frame
>Focus</> had a lead article "Frame Joins Forces with Datalogics" which
>said, among other things:
>
>     FrameBuilder provides full, native support for Standard
>     Generalized Markup Language (SGML), a widely adopted ISO
>     standard for document interchange.
>

I got the some line from a sales rep at UNIX EXPO back in September.  So I
arranged to become a beta test site.  Unfortunatity I found out after 
getting the product and the manuals, this "full, nativbe support" only 
means it incorperates the concept of structure, but nothing more.  

FrameBuilder allows the user to define, in SGML like sematics, the structure
of the document.  This structure definition contains all the basic operators
including inclusions and exclusions.  But even this violates the standard
in minor ways.  The generic identifiers used in their "DTD" can have up to
256 characters (the standard says eight) and can contain spaces.

The major problem with using FrameBuilder for my purposes is that there
is no support for attributes are even reading SGML files.  If you use
FrameBuilder as it now stands, you cannot use SGML as well.

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