RE: Content Management

["Roger Shuttleworth" <RShuttleworth@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

For anyone who is interested, there is a very good article on content management at:

http://www.multilingual.com/FMPro?-DB=vendors&-lay=CGI&-format=gettingStarted/welcomeGettingStarted.htm&-find

Warning: it's a humongous PDF, so best to download it to your own machine before viewing. The emphasis is on Web content and localization, but the principles still apply.

Roger Shuttleworth
London, Canada

(who is grappling with the same issues...)



-----Original Message-----
From: Dan Emory [mailto:danemory@primenet.com]
Sent: Wednesday, May 08, 2002 10:37 AM
To: swiseman@selajerusalem.co.il; Framers (E-mail)
Subject: Re: Content Management


At 03:26 PM 5/8/02 +0200, Steve Wiseman wrote:
>Hi,
>
>What solutions do people use for content management within FrameMaker files?
>I mean at the paragraph level, not just the file level.

In unstructured documents, the only solution I can think of is to use a 
special marker type, which you insert in the text of each modified 
paragraph. The marker text would describe the change. You get a report of 
the change history by generating a list of markers.

The real solution, however, is to switch to structured documents
(now possible only with FrameMaker+SGML, but shortly available to all in 
FrameMaker 7.0).  Structured documents have metadata in the form of element 
attributes, and you could create special "wrapper" elements at any desired 
level of granularity whose purpose is to provide complete content 
management information in the form of attributes.
====================
| Nullius in Verba |
====================
Dan Emory, Dan Emory & Associates
FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing
Voice/Fax: 949-722-8971 E-Mail: danemory@primenet.com
177 Riverside Ave., STE F, #1151, Newport Beach, CA 92663
---Subscribe to the "Free Framers" list by sending a message to
majordomo@omsys.com with "subscribe framers" (no quotes) in the body.



** To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@omsys.com **
** with "unsubscribe framers" (no quotes) in the body.   **

** To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@omsys.com **
** with "unsubscribe framers" (no quotes) in the body.   **