Re: Formatting elements on import of XML to FrameMaker

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

At 12:03 AM 10/15/2004, sverre.ola.medalen@xxxxxxxxxxxxx wrote:
> We receive documents structured according to the Docbook DTD. In this
> structure there is constructs like:
>
> <para>
>   <orderedlist>
>     <listitem>
>       <para>Text</para>
>     </listitem>
>    </orderedlist>
>   </para>
>
> I have read the Structure Application Developeer's Guide from Adobe to
> learn the syntax for mapping XML elements to FrameMaker paragraph
> formats. I have found how to map child elements of parent elements to
> paragraph formats and how to map sibling elements to paragraph formats.
> In this case I would like to map the <para> parent element of the
> <ordered> element to a paragraph format. I have not found the syntax for
> building the correct EDD rule. Does any of you have some good
> information on this to share? I'm looking for a good book on this
> subject as an alternative to Adobe's document. Any suggestions are
> appreciated.

Sverre,
  To map a <para> within an <orderedlist> you can use the context 
specification
       listitem < orderedlist
or
       * < orderedlist

within the rule for <para>. The first variation refers to a <para> in a 
<listitem> that is in an <orderedlist>, the second to a <listitem> that is 
a descendant of an <orderedlist> regardless of any intervening elements.
  Be careful, though, do you ever have two <para> elements within one 
<listitem>:

<para>
  <orderedlist>
    <listitem>
     <para>first para</para>
     <para>second para</para>
   </listitem>
   </orderedlist>
  </para>

If so, you'll probably want the two paragraphs formatted differently. You 
can use a context specification such as:
       {first} < listitem < orderedlist
in a rule for <para> to refer to the first <para> in a <listitem> in an 
<orderedlist>, or you can simply use a first paragraph rule (instead of a 
text format rule) for <listitem>.

By the way, are you writing a DocBook application from scratch? FrameMaker 
includes a DocBook starter kit. It's not a complete application, and it has 
some bugs, but it does get you started. There's a separate short manual for 
it, also in the online manuals folder.

        --Lynne


Lynne A. Price
Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
Specializing in structured FrameMaker consulting, application development, 
and training
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