Re: Frame+SGML and XML

["Lynne A. Price" <lprice@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 03:48 PM 6/19/00 -0400, Ed Treijs wrote: 
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In other words, Frame+SGML produces XML that has a structure, while Frame's save as XML produces a whole bunch of individual items (paragraphs) in no particular structure.

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Ed,
  Your assumptions are correct. When you save a FM document to XML, the XML
tagging uses the information in the document. If the document was structured,
the best available information is the element structure of that document.
If the document was unstructured (whether created in FM or FM+SGML), the
best available information is the format tags in the document. Since an
XML document is an element structure using the same model as a structured
FM+SGML document, the FM+SGML stuctured document is much more likely to
give useful results. 
  Remember, however, that it is perfectly possible to create a badly structured
document in FM+SGML by using a poorly designed EDD. Saving the document to
XML will not fix such problems. Furthermore, some material is amenable to a
flat structure that is adequately represented by FM paragraph tags and for
such data saving unstructured documents to XML might be sufficient.
	--Lynne
	

Lynne A. Price
Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
lprice@txstruct.com
http://www.txstruct.com

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