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Subject: RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Has anyone tested Framemaker 7 with Docbook XML?
> -----Original Message----- > From: bobs@caldera.com [mailto:bobs@caldera.com] > Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 1:06 PM > To: Alexander Schatten; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org > Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Has anyone tested Framemaker 7 with Docbook > XML? > > > On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:32:04PM +0200, Alexander Schatten wrote: > > Framemaker 7 seems to be a very interesting upgrade in terms of XML > > support. Has anyone tested already importing / using docbook XML with > > Framemaker (and off course publishing using Framemaker) > > I don't believe FrameMaker 7 has been released. > They told me mid May. > > I got FrameMaker+SGML 6 to work with DocBook 3.1 SGML. > Officially FrameMaker+SGML 6 does not read XML > files, but it can if done correctly (a proper declarations > file). > > I tried Docbook 4.1.2 and 4.2 with FrameMaker+SGML 6, and it > was very frustrating. Generally the program crashed > when trying to import the DTD to form the FrameMaker EDD. > After mucking with it awhile and removing a bunch of > attributes, I got 4.1.2 to load and create the EDD. I never > got 4.2 to load. But then the program would crash when > trying to read or write SGML files, even simple ones. > > Since I was still in my support time, I filed a report > with Adobe and they investigated. They came back and said > that version 6 won't work with DocBook 4, but they expect > the next version to. Adobe states that FrameMaker 7.0 will support "DocBook 4.1, xDocBook 4.1.2, and XHTML sample applications included for structured authoring" http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/newfeatures.html
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