Re: Roundtripping XML in FrameMaker 7.0

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

Some time ago, hedley_finger@myob.com.au wrote:
>I have been perusing the FrameMaker 7.0 marketing bumf at Adobe's site and
>at least one document claims that you can roundtrip XML documents.
>
>If this is so, is it possible to preserve cross-reference formats and
>instances, conditions and instances, and variables and instances on export
>so that they are correctly mapped to native constructs when reimported?
>(That is, definitions and usage of cross-references, conditions, and
>variables.)


Hedley,

1) You can easily round-trip instances of xrefs, preserving the format used,
   provided that import uses a template that defines the format. If you want
   format definitions to be represented in the XML, you'll need an FDK client
   to handle both import and export.
2) User variables are exported as entity references. FM will declare the
   entity correctly as long as the variable definition does not include character
   formats or less-than or greater than characters. You can use the FDK to
   support such variables if needed.
3) It take the FDK to represent conditional text usage in XML or SGML. Text
   Structure Consulting has a client that can be used to do so, with certain
   constraints on the DTD. Contact info@txstruct.com if you are interested
   in this client.

	--Lynne


Lynne A. Price
Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
Specializing in FrameMaker+SGML consulting and training
lprice@txstruct.com
http://www.txstruct.com
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