Re: HTML to Frame

["Jason Aiken" <jason.aiken@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

So far, I've received no responses to my queries on this subject. However, this topic comes up a lot in the archives. Now that I've had time to research the issue myself, I thought I'd respond to my own question for the benefit of others. (I hope Free Framers stuff is archived somewhere.)

It appears Netscape, IE, and other browsers have a "Save as text" feature that saves HTML as plain text. It wouldn't be too tedious to open the text in FrameMaker and then tag it as necessary. A more advanced filter would be required to retain tagging. Plus, more recent versions of FrameMaker (like the one sitting at home), are supposed to open XML. We've all heard a lot about that, I believe.

There's lots of interesting HTML filter stuff listed at: http://www.w3.org/Tools/html2things.html 

Blueberry also has Filtrix filters for HTML and lots of information on their site, but the last price I saw (from about 4 years ago) was around $US300:
http://www.blueberry.com/htmtomif.htm

Older versions of Blueberry filters (3-5 years ago) were considered sub-standard and unhelpful in some advanced cases. Blueberry was once willing to run test files and presently have a demo available for a free download. I'm not sure if they still run test files for prospective clients. Their filters likely retain some formatting or mapping of HTML tags to Frame tags, adding some improvement to the "Save as text" feature.

A German consulting firm, .riess, once had something called HTML-2-Frame. The link provided to the product in the Framers archive is dead, but their new home page is http://www.riess.de/flashintro.html . A search of their website on "HTML-2-Frame" yielded no hits.

There were also numerous reports of people working on perl filters and EDD's for FM+SGML.

Best regards,
Jason


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