Re: Frame 7 and DocBook

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

Dottie,
  If you have a structured document, you can certainly create either an 
XML or an SGML DTD that uses that structure. In fact, FrameMaker will do it 
for you. From the EDD, use File > Structure Tools > Save as DTD. You may 
have to do some clean-up since there are some general rules that are 
permitted in EDDs although their XML counterparts are not.
  However, the resulting DTD will use the element and attribute types you 
use in your documents which is unlikely to match those of DocBook unless it 
was designed to do so--DocBook is a particular DTD that defines a very 
detailed set of elements. If you are required to produce DocBook markup, 
however, you may able to transform your own structures into DocBook 
equivalents.
  Feel free to contact me off-list for more details.
        --Lynne

At 08:19 PM 6/21/2005, Dottie wrote:
> This is such a stupid question but I need a confirmation that I'm not 
> totally out of my mind--or maybe I am.
>
> I've got a structured document. Structured according to a certain style 
> that we use. I want to create a DTD for the authors. I'm being told that I 
> can't do this because --
>
> "DocBook defines the structure. It says there must be a body, and headers, 
> and sections, and chapters, etc. and they all must be done in a certain 
> way. It defines the relationships between entities and what data can go where."
>
> So, there's no alternative to their structure?
>
> Dottie M.
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