Re: FrameMaker+SGML (or Structured FM7) EDD and R/W rules Management

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

At 11:03 AM 7/3/02 -0400, eric.dunn@ca.transport.bombardier.com wrote:
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>If you work with structured files and maintain EDDs, DTDs, and R/W Rules Lynne
>Price's resources are invaluable. Look for them at Text Structure Consulting,
>Inc http://www.txstruct.com/.
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Thank you, Eric!


>Could the structured R/W rules be incorporated into the MetaEDD to have the R/W
>rules located immediately following the General Rule for each element. 

It certainly should be possible to allow r/w rules anywhere that Comments 
are permitted in my meta-EDD. From the EDD perspective, they would just be
documentation elements. In fact, you could have a r/w rule EDD that treats
the EDD elements as comments (by putting comment delimiters: /* and */) around
them. Then you can switch between an EDD and r/w rules simply by importing
element definitions.

Since there are no comments in the structure application file (SGML application 
file in pre-7.0 versions of FM+SGML), the same technique won't work for
maintaining application definition information in the same file. If you want
to keep everything in the same file, I'd go ahead and treat the application
elements as documentation elements in the EDD and r/w rules templates. Since
there are much fewer element types in the application definitions than in EDDs
or r/w rules, I'd assign one condition tag to the entire document, and a
second condition tag to the application definitions. Then I'd hide the first
condition and show the second. The result should be an application definition
you can reread.

	--Lynne

Lynne A. Price
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Specializing in FrameMaker+SGML consulting and training
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