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.
>
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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
