RE: .fm vs .e## vs .xml

["Luke Hoban" <Luke.Hoban@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Depends what you mean by edit directly ~
Using Structured FrameMaker (SFM) you can open the XML files in C:\Program Files\Adobe\FrameMaker7.1\XMLCookbook  edit them, then save as XML.   
You don't get the same editing rights as say a text editor where you can edit the tags directly ~ but you can add/edit content as long as you follow the DTD/EDD rules.

Regards,

Luke



 -----Original Message-----
From: 	Bill Swallow [mailto:techcommdood@xxxxxxxxx] 
Sent:	Friday, 1 April 2005 9:55 AM
To:	Webmaster
Cc:	framers@xxxxxxxxx
Subject:	Re: .fm vs .e## vs .xml

Has the company standardized on a documentation infrastructure? If so,
all writers should conform to it. That resolves the "she's in one tool
and I'm in another" issue.

No, FM cannot edit XML directly.

I don't know what a .e## file is.

On Thu, 31 Mar 2005 17:05:08 -0600, Webmaster <Webmaster@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> Hello.
> 
> I'm using Docbook, and am encouraging my coworker to use DocBook, but she is
> using  Framemaker 7 - Of which I know little of - although I've been able to
> manage so far to be her resource to answer her Framemaker questions!
> 
> She is using a FM "book" file, for all practical purposes it seems to work
> for me. But I'm curious:
> 
> 1) Is there a way to setup FM to it can simply edit XML files in FM's
> structured mode? (instead of importing .xml, converting to .fm and
> reexporting to .xml)
> 
> 2) Is there a way for FM to create .xml files instead of a bunch of .e##
> files?
> 
> Or is this how you all do this?

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