RNYSXUG Meeting - April 19, 2000

Meeting Date: 04/19/2000

Time: 5:00 - 7:00

Location: West Group

Minutes

Initial Thoughts:

• • Chris Lada opened the meeting

Overview:

• Introductions
• Discussion of Web Site
• Overview of American Conversion Company
• Demonstration of AmCon's Keystone DTD Tool
• Wrap up - Next Meeting

Introductions:

Note: if your email addess is not correct, please let Chris Lada know.

Discussions of Web Site

• Questions/Suggestions:
  • Is there a way to force the browser to select the whole page when attempting to print ?
  • Link from the meeting notice page to an agenda for upcoming meetings
  • Put web site address on all correspondence
  • Correction: there is a blank Q&A page on the FAQ
  • Lets create an XML version of the web site:
    • this can be a project for the group
    • any volunteers to lead the effort ?

American Conversion Company

• • Presenter: Jack Davies - American Conversion Company overview
    • Electronic Publications
    • Conversions
    • Partial customer list: RG&E, Thomson International, Lockheed-Martin
    • History:
      • Started in 1998,
      • First customer was Lockheed-Martin
      • Located on University of Syracuse Campus
      • Write proprietary conversion software, i.e. Scribe (RTF-> SGML)
  • Presenter: Adam Cave - Keystone™ DTD Creation and Maintenance Tool
    • Developed to support SGML application development and increase SGML knowledge by providing an intuitive and powerful interface to the contents of Document Type Definitions (DTDs).
    • SGML Application development is supported through a number of utilities that allow you to extract useful information about the structure of a DTD including a powerful query engine that allows you to quickly obtain relations between the defined elements.
    • SGML knowledge is enhanced by presenting the DTD using multiple views that are inter-linked and easy to understand. These views include a hyper-linked editor that maintains the original DTD text, an element model that presents each element in its own separate window displaying information about its relationship with other elements, the ability to generate an empty instance of the tag structure and the ability to normalize the DTD (resolving parameter entities, removing unused elements and marked sections and creating one SGML file).
    • Download: http://www.amconresearch.com/products/download.htm

   

  • For more information, see the presentation (when available), or visit the American Conversion Company Web site

Ideas For Future Meetings

• • Lessons Learned Roundtable (need volunteers)

Thanks !

• • Thanks to Jack and Adam for that great presentation on the American Conversion Company, and their product Keystone™

Next Meeting