Re: save as xml/ external x-refs?

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

At 09:56 AM 10/13/99 -0700, Dan Emory wrote:
>At 04:08 PM 10/12/99 -0700, Lynne A. Price wrote:
>>-------------Snip-------
>>Furthermore, a
>>FrameMaker+SGML cross-reference always cites a location in another
>>FrameMaker document.
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>I'm not sure what you mean by the above statement. Certainly, a
>cross-reference in an FM+SGML structured document can cite a location in the
>same document as well as one in a diferent document. In fact, as you point
>out, the ID/IDREF attributes do not have any document identifiers, which is
>why they can only be used when all cited locations are  within a single SGML
>document instance.

I meant that the target of a FrameMaker cross-reference is in a FrameMaker
document (the current one or another one) and not in some other type
of document (XML, SGML, PDF, HTML...)




>+++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++++
>Can you be sure that other document will also
>>be converted to SGML? The answer to this question (which depends
>>on your environment) is important import to your design.
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>Note that the subject of this thread relates to XML, not SGML. XML, unlike
>SGML, has a solution to to the problem which is the subject of this thread.
>In XML, resources (e.g., documents) are identified by Universal Resource
>Identifiers (URIs), which can include optional anchor IDs (i.e, nodes within
>a document). Anchor IDs could be made to correspond to the unique IDs
>created by FM+SGML for each cross-reference source. Also, XML provides a
>Resource Description Framework (RDF) to describe resources.

The question is still relevant. When you convert a cross-reference to
a FrameMaker+SGML document to XML in your particular environment can
you safely assume that the cited document will also be converted to
XML?

	--Lynne

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

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