FrameXLT plugin

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Joanne,

All of West Street's software is well thought-out, and well-written. The 
author, Russ Ward, is a technical writer that has developed FrameMaker 
plugins to solve problems and overcome obstacles in his own production 
environment.

I have been very happy with FrameSLT. I am currently structuring a set of 
unstructured documents for a client, and have found FrameSLT very valuable. 
I can use it to quickly change one element another, or apply and change 
attributes, as I iteratively develop the structure. It uses XPath to find 
elements/attributes in a document, which I find easier and more natural than 
Frame's Find dialog box.

FrameSLT can be controlled by other plugins and scripts, so I use it in 
conjunction with FrameScript. Rather than recursively looking through the 
element tree for particular elements/attributes, FrameSLT allows me to use 
XPath in my scripts to quickly find the elements/attributes that I am 
looking for.

I would suggest that you download the trial and work through the excellent 
tutorials. This will give you a good feel for FrameSLT and its possible uses 
in your workflow.

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing
585-659-8267
www.frameexpert.com


>I was looking at some of the products at
>
>   http://www.weststreetconsulting.com
>
> and the FrameXLT plugin looks like what we need as we begin moving to 
> structured docs.
>
> Does anyone have experience with this one, and does it work well?
>
> Thanks for any info,
>    -joanne