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Re: How good is FrameMaker XML export? Tools?

At 10:52 AM 9/27/01 -0700, Joe Woodard wrote:
>How good is the XML created by an XML export by FrameMaker? I believe it's
>not 'well-formed' XML. Are there tools for modifying or enhancing
>Framemaker's XML export function? Is there a difference between the
>XML exported by Frame and Frame+SGML?
There is a huge difference between FrameMaker and FM+SGML in exporting 
XML.. In FrameMaker, tags in unstructured documents must be mapped 
corresponding elements. The XML output should be well-formed, but it cannot 
be made to conform to an XML DTD. Moreover, since unstructured documents 
have no way of storing metadata, metadata, in the form of element 
attributes cannot be exported.

In FM+SGML, however, you can create structured documents that conform to a 
DTD, and those documents can contain metadat in the form of attributes. 
When you export an FM+SGML structured doc to XML, the output will be 
well-formed and DTD conformant, and the attributes values will be 
preserved. FM+SGML also has the capability, on export to XML, to produce a 
Cascading Style Sheet file for the exported XML document. Allegedly, using 
WWP with FM+SGML 6.0 will produce even better formatting information for 
the XML output.
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