Re: FM to FM+SGML

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

Art,
  To add a little introduction to Dan's email, FM+SGML provides a tool
(see File > Utilities > Structure Current Document or Structure Documents)
for deducing element structure from the format-oriented tags (paragraph
tags, character tags, and so on) in an unstructured document. The original
document may have been created in FM or filtered into FM from a word
processor format.
  How appropriate this tool is to your situation depends on how closely
the tags in the unstructured document correspond to the elements you want
in the structured one and how rigorously the tags have been applied within
the original documents (how much ad hoc formatting is there?). Depending
on the quantity of data to be processed, it may make sense to augment the
results with an FDK client that looks for particular text strings in the
document or removes some text that can be automatically generated in a
structured document.
  There are also various SGML tools (and consulting firms that specialize
in such conversions) that might be appropriate for some situations.
	--Lynne


At 09:32 AM 10/7/99 -0700, Dan Emory wrote:
>At 10:57 AM 10/7/99 -0400, Campbell, Art wrote:
>>I'm going to have to convert from plain FM to FM+SGML; the process is going
>>to involve converting several existing docs...
>>
>>Does anyone who has done this have any tips, tricks, traps they'd be willing
>>to share?
>========================================================================
>1. Read the Structure Rules Tables Appendix in the Developer's Guide. Then
>read it several more times. You must thoroughly understand the syntax of DTD
>content models/EDD general rules, and how that syntax is used in structure
>rules tables.


Lynne A. Price
Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
lprice@txstruct.com
http://www.txstruct.com

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