Re: real dumb frame/xml question

[Lee Richardson <lhr@xxxxxxxxx>]

Similar to SGML, XML isn't 'imported', it's 'parsed', meaning that the XML content in a file is read in a fairly intelligent way and converted into meaningful chunks before being placed into a FrameMaker document. FM+SGML includes a lot of functionality to parse SGML, handle entities and attributes, and map it all into the FM document model.

XML is different enough from SGML that the SGML tools won't work on it directly. If you're careful, it's possible to convert XML into SGML and import it into FM+SGML that way.

It wouldn't be that hard to write a stand-alone filter to read XML and pull out most of the text content, but that's a lowest-common-denominator solution.

Unicode translation would also need to be done, to convert any Unicode content into the FrameMaker internal character encoding, but that's not that difficult. XML can also contain other encodings, though Unicode is preferred.

...Lee

At 11:33 AM +0100 2/18/02, Studio Smalbro wrote:
>I know this question is really stupid, but nevertheless: why doesn't
>Framemaker have an "import as xml" filter?
>Is it because there are some features in xml which won't translate right
>into Framemaker... or some such thing ?
>regards
>Bjørn
>
>
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