Re: FrameMaker Release 7.2

[Steve Whitlatch <swhitlat@xxxxxxxxxx>]

On Thursday 15 September 2005 04:11 pm, Lynne A. Price wrote:

>    While it won't help with SGML, the 7.2 XSLT support for XML documents
> comes very close to eliminating the need for an FDK client for XML
> documents. 

Wow, that's the first I've heard of this. I _think_ it's good news. I have 
always hated "custom api clients" or "FDK clients" because I can't write 
them. I hate them badly. I really hate them.

> Of course, you may have to write the XSLT transforms (two: one 
> for import and one for export) yourself, but conversion between FM index
> markers and the DocBook index model is straightforward in XSLT, as is
> condensing sequences of white space characters to a single space.

This is reasonable, or good, I think. I am no wizzard with XSL (yet?), but 
putting the time and effort into getting better with XSL/XSLT/XSL-FO/XSL-HTML 
(all things XSL . . . including XPath, XQuery, etc.) is a good investment. 
I'll do it.

Thanks, 

Steve Whitlatch


** To unsubscribe, send a message to majordomo@xxxxxxxxx **
** with "unsubscribe framers" (no quotes) in the body.   **