Hi Austin... Regarding your big question .. the concept of "text insets" is certainly available in other forms. DITA provides the concept of "conrefs" (content references) that do one up on standard FM insets in that they can reference any level of object granularity, not just a whole file. And with DITA 1.2 comes the concept of the "coderef" which lets you have an "inset" to a file that contains live code, not just content from another DITA document. As for Internet coding .. most server side scripting languages provide the concept of an "include" which is essentially an "inset" to another file, pulling in the content of one file into another. You can also use AJAX to pull in content from a database or other sources into documents on the web .. or iframes can achieve similar functionality.
Don't get me wrong, Frame's text insets are great .. but this is certainly available in many other formats. Cheers, ...scott Scott Prentice Leximation, Inc. www.leximation.com +1.415.485.1892 Austin Meredith wrote: > > We wouldn't even be able to use FrameMaker if it weren't for insets > (incorporations by reference). They work perfectly for us. Sometimes a > document of ours will have literally thousands of such live > incorporations by reference! --We rely on them the way a > programmer relies on calls to a Call Library. > > > > Our big question is, when will the Internet people get smart enough to > "get with" insets, and finally grant us the same capabilities for > real-time-live-update insets in Internet coding (HTML, XML, etc.), as > have been available in FrameMaker? > > > >