Tridium Approach to Generating Documentation (1998)

The basic problem is that documentation should be available in a printed format as well as available electronically from a web site or in the product.

Source Documentation

Source documentation that needs to support print, web and product needs can be generated as SGML (Standard Generalized Markup Language) to the DocBook DTD (Document Type Definition). This provides the information structured by content without specific presentation defined.

Conversion to Print

This conversion uses DSSSL (Document Style Semantics and Specification Language ISO/IEC 10179:1996) to convert the SGML to RTF (Rich Text Format). A tool called Jade, freeware from James Clark, converts the document from SGML to RTF using Norman Walsh's Modular DocBook Stylesheets.

Conversion to HTML

This conversion uses the same approach as the conversion to print with different stylesheets.