
• Name choice should not be a substitute for proper documentation;
meaningless tags and acronyms might encourage you to properly docu-
ment the application.
A Tool to Help
I find drawing trees on a piece of paper an exercise in frustration. No
matter how careful you are, after a few rounds of editing, the paper is
unreadable and modeling often requires several rounds of editing!
Fortunately, there are very good tools on the market to assist you while you
write DTDs. The trees in this book were produced by Near & Far from
Microstar (
www.microstar.com).
Near & Far is as intuitive as a piece of paper but, even after 1,000 changes,
the tree still looks good. ...