Database for docbook components (i.e. section, para, etc) questions

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We have been 
generating much of our DocBook XML content over the last year and the few files 
we started out with have been "fruitful and multiplied". Now we have a large 
bunch of XML files that is starting to get unweildly in number and we would like 
to start putting this info under configuration control.

 

I would like to hear 
how others have solved this problem. Do you have a database that stores these 
XML items or do you just use a structured file tree? Can the Docbook tools 
work with a database? I could not find anything in Stayton's or Walsh's books on 
this topic but I suspect that someone has ran into this issue and has a 
solution.

 

Also, I would like 
to know if anyone uses Docbook components in their Word documents. We have a 
marketing dept. that insists on using the MS Word tools but the software 
developers create docs in XML/Docbook. Can the two exist so we only have to 
write one XML section and not both?

 

 

Thanks for your 
input!

 

Dean Nelson   
Sr. Software 
Engineer
Enterprise Electronics Corp
http://www.EECradar.com   

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