A question from a Linux new bee

[Janina Sajka]

Well, you're wrong. The source was certainly not flat ASCII. BookShare
has O'Reily's sgml and used scripts to transform the markup.

Dawes, Stephen writes:
> I am aware of book share's O'riley's collection. I am also aware of how
> the collection was created. As I have been told, the source for the
> bookshare was flat text files. So this is going to have a significant
> impact on the mark-up of the text. I was think of looking into safari to
> see if it would be any better. I know that O'Riley has been a big
> advocate of making their publications available to the print disabled
> community in the past, so it doesn't surprise me to hear that the safari
> service is accessible.
> 
> 
> Steve Dawes
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> Email: SDawes at calgary.ca
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> > From: speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca 
> > [mailto:speakup-bounces at braille.uwo.ca] On Behalf Of Janina Sajka
> > Sent: 2005 May 03 8:44 AM
> > To: Speakup is a screen review system for Linux.
> > Subject: Re: A question from a Linux new bee
> > 
> > Hi, Stephen:
> > 
> > Dawes, Stephen writes:
> > > Janina,
> > > 
> > > How accessible is O'Reily's Safari service?
> > 
> > I should point out that I've never been a subscriber, but I 
> > did look at their examples some months ago and found the 
> > service very accessible.
> > They use very clean html, imho, with docbook sgml on their 
> > back end, I believe.
> > 
> > However, I also think it important to point out that Book 
> > Share has access to all O'Reily titles, though their markup 
> > leaves much to be desired.
> > 
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Janina Sajka				Phone: +1.202.494.7040
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