Archiving EDDs

Like any other structured document, an EDD can be represented as an XML or SGML document. Saving an EDD to a markup language creates a text file that has the following benefits:

It can be archived in a source code control system, document management, or content management system that requires text files.
It can easily be compared to other versions of the file

Text Structure Consulting, Inc., provides an SGML application for representing EDDs in SGML. This application is available in directory http://www.txstruct.com/EDD2SGML which contains:

EDDapp.fm: Documentation of the application
edd.dcl: The SGML declaration
edd.dtd: The main DTD entity
edd.rw: Read/write rules
rename.rw: An include file used by edd.rw
eddwent.dtd: Another DTD entity
sgmlapps.fm: The SGML application file
EDD-SGML.zip: A zip file containing all the above files

This application is based on an earlier version of the Text Structure Consulting, Inc. metatemplate and has not yet been updated to XML or to FrameMaker 7.0. An update is expected soon; contact info@txstruct.com for status.