Re: [docbook-apps] Frame to Docbook XML

["Bob Stayton" <bobs@sagehill.net>]

Yes, a Frame conversion table can add structure to a flat Framemaker
document.

Bob Stayton
Sagehill Enterprises
DocBook Consulting
bobs@sagehill.net


----- Original Message ----- 
From: "martin jakubik" <martin.jakubik@solsoft.com>
To: <docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org>
Sent: Tuesday, July 12, 2005 1:54 AM
Subject: Re: [docbook-apps] Frame to Docbook XML


> Hi Bob, this is an interesting idea, but I thought this was impossible
> to automate using FrameMaker alone. My questions below.
>
> >which is installed under your FrameMaker 7 directory.  You have to create
> >conversion tables to map your FrameMaker styles to DocBook elements and
> >attributes.  Once you create the conversion tables, you apply them to as
> >many files as you have that use those FrameMaker styles.  Then you can
use
> >the FrameMaker DocBook XML application to save as DocBook XML.
> >
> >
>  From my very modest experiments with FrameMaker XML, the output
> generated by FrameMaker is "flat". Ie., you can get something along the
> lines of:
>
> <heading1>
>   title text
> </heading1>
>
> <para>
>   para text
> </para>
>
> <para>
>   para text
> </para>
>
> <heading2>
>   title text
> </heading2>
>
> ...etc.
>
> Stylesheets will have difficulty converting this to a
> hierarchical-ownership structure. The hard part is created correct child
> sections, and re-inserting figures or tables that are "owned" by
> paragraphs, and so on. As far as I know, using FrameMaker's conversion
> tables to map "Heading2" to "title" will not give FrameMaker enough
> information to  create a level-2 <section> under the current level-1
> <section>, rather than ending the current level-1 <section> and starting
> a new level-1 <section>.
>
> This is why I suggest using WebWorks Publisher macros, if available, to
> "remember" the current position in the document to output the correct
> DocBook structure.
>
> However, I trust your advice, so I might be missing something. Is the
> "FrameMaker DocBook XML application", really made to handle the above
> problem?
>
> martin
>
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