FrameMaker 7.0 Conversion Table Questions

["Rebecca Downey" <rdowney@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Help.

I've been through the Appendix A of the Structured Application Developer's
Guide (Online Manual) that came with FrameMaker 7.0. It's helped - some, but
I'm currently very confused.

I've also been through the archives and they've helped a lot; but I've still
got several questions.

Does anyone have a sample or a link that could list the syntax used in the
FrameMaker 7.0 Conversion Tables? Specifically, I'm looking for detailed
examples in how to nest tags (Para inside Sect1, Sect2 and Chapter - for
example).

I've managed to figure out how to do it for one item that is always inside
another:

P:Bulleted	ListItem	itemizedlist
E:ListItem[itemizedlist]+	ItemizedList

Produces:
ItemizedList
	ListItem
	ListItem

But not how to provide multiple possible nesting locations.
I tried:
P:Body	Para	body
E:Chapter[body]?	Para
E:Sect1[body]?	Para
E:Sect2[body]?	Para

To no effect.
I want:
Chapter
	Para
	Sect1
		Para
		Sect2
			Para

I have several dozen small legacy documents I would very much like to
convert to docbook.

In a related question - how do you use the conversion table system to go
from no structure (topmost item = NoName) to docbook? Am I on the right path
here? Is such a conversion possible?

I realize I'll have to write my own read/write rules, but I want to use the
docbook dtd (turned into an EED) and structapps.fm (from the xDocBook
Starter) set that shipped with FrameMaker rather than totally reinvent the
wheel.

System Information:
Adobe FrameMaker 7.0
Microsoft Windows 2000

Thanks.
I'll gladly summarize anything I get for the list.
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Rebecca Downey Senior Technical Writer
ITG:NBM Matrox Electronic System
1055 St Regis, Dorval, Quebec, H9P 2T4


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