RE: EDD/DTD syncronization

["Steve Whitlatch" <swhitlat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

Structured FrameMaker's learning curve is not an easy gentle slope, but DocBook
and XML publishing isn't really super simple either. DocBook XML (the DTD
package), plus the DocBook XSL package, plus the libxml2 tools (or the tools of
your choice), plus a professional FO processor like XEP,  . . . all the these
things in a properly configured tool chain managed and operated by a
knowledgeable person . . . this gets you all the single sourcing you are looking
for. You can do all this yourself "in your own backyard," but you will have to
work at getting it into operation.

XML-to-FO-to-PostScript and/or the XML-to-FO-to-PDF processes are usually
significantly more difficult than the XML-to-HTML processes. Structured
FrameMaker can help. It can substitute for the processes that otherwise would
involve using XSL, and it can provide all the excellent formatting and
publishing capabilities of unstructured FrameMaker.

You can try my downloadable DocBook XML structured FrameMaker project at:
http://www.getnet.net/~swhitlat/

Follow the DocBook link on the right.

Or, to get started with learning DocBook XSL-FO, you can try DocBook XSL
Configurator:
http://sourceforge.net/projects/db-xsl-cfg/


Good luck,

Steve Whitlatch




> -----Original Message-----
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> Sent: Thursday, March 31, 2005 5:32 PM
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> Subject: EDD/DTD syncronization
>
>
> Sorry, I have another question.
>
> During this "little" (read: big) project of ours, I've found there are some
> discrepencies between DocBook 4.1.2 (which came with FM, and I installed)
> and FM's EDD (unmodified).  Attributes are either missing or incorrect. One
> off the top of my head is the element "imagedata". It has two issues:
>
> 1) It has an attribute of align, but when we give it the value of "center"
> Framemaker xports it to "acenter" which will not work with DocBook's DTD.
> (we haven't tried "right" or "left" yet)
> 2) DocBook 4.1.2 has an attribute called "FileRef" but FM makes no mention
> of it. And I can't get EntitiyRef to work for the life of me.
>
> Has anyone come across these discrepencies? Is there a list of corrections
> anywhere to fix the EDD? Or would recreating the EDD from the DTD fix it?
> Or, what if we download the latest DocBook DTD, and create a new EDD?
>
> anyone have experience in this?
>
> Thanks you so much!!!
> LN
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