Frame documnet saved as XML losing formatting
Karen West
klw at cyberscience.com
Tue Jan 31 08:40:25 PST 2006
Mike Feimster wrote:
> > I believe that FrameMaker drops that formatting when
> > saving as xml. If you are using formats from the character catalog it
should
> > > save the formatting.
I stupidly replied:
> > Thanks Mike, I've just tried it and it works now using the
> > character catalog. Excellent, that's rather stupid though,
> > don't you think?
Richard Combs set me straight:
> Well, no. In fact, a recent poll of FrameUsers readers found
> that 35 out of 37 thought it was rather stupid to apply ad
> hoc formatting as you did instead of using defined character tags:
I've just read the relevant thread and I now feel more enlightened. In my
defence I didn't know any better as I've had no formal training in using
FrameMaker. I'm the sole Technical Writer here and kind of got roped into
the position.
Richard asked:
> If you have unstructured, randomly-formatted docs that don't
> use paragraph and character tags consistently, then what's
> the point in converting them to XML anyway?
They do use paragraph and character tags, though rarely for bold and italic.
The XML is for a help system, for which I'm having to provide all my
documents in XML format. I am now paying the price in the conversion to XML,
of both my formatting mistakes and those of my predecessors.
Karen West
Technical Writer
Cyberscience Corp
http://www.cyberscience.com
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