XML roundtripping - attributes with more than one value

Scott Prentice sp at leximation.com
Wed Oct 25 09:42:25 PDT 2006


Hi Daniel...

I'm pretty sure that "Strings" values are space-delimited .. at least 
whenever I've worked with them they have been. I don't think you'll have 
much success maintaining a newline in an attribute value.

...scott

Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892



Daniel Osborn wrote:
> Hi,
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> In Framemaker, when you add more than one value to an attribute of type
> 'Strings', the values have to be separated by a line break.
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> When you save the file as .xml the values of the attribute are written
> into one string separated by spaces. No problem there except that when
> you open the file again in Framemaker the values are also written on one
> line separated by spaces.
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> Is there any way to reintroduce the line breaks into the attribute value
> when the file is opened in Framemaker? 
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> Thanks,
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> Daniel
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