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RE: A FrameMaker Solution to the XML Problem (Long)

--- Peter Gold <pngold@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
> All good points, pros and cons.
> Regarding your suggestions for solutions, do you
> think, since EDDs are just FM files that can be
> rendered in MIF or XML, it would also be 
> possible to provide a rules-based solution to
> formatting, based on one of these approaches, or
> something similar:
> * choosing among FormatChangeLists based on rules
> built into the EDD for different doctypes?
> * constructing EDDs by retrieving stored pieces from
> a repository in response to a query that includes
> the document's needs as arguments
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I  think each of the opportunities you describe could
be easily implemented. This approach might, in
response to a middlewear job ticket, cause the
assembly of a customized EDD on-the-fly from  granular
chunks of existing EDDs (stored in MIF format). 

Also, customized templates could be assembled
on-the-fly by, for instance first importing the
customized EDD, and then perhaps importing page
layouts, reference pages, variable definitions, etc.
from one or more existing templates. Once the
customized template is fully configured, the XML
instance delivered with the job template would be
imported into the assembled template. 


Dan Emory & Associates
FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database
Publishing
DW Emory <danemory7224@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>



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