Framemaker and Twiki

Kelly McDaniel kmcdaniel at pavtech.com
Mon Jul 21 08:54:50 PDT 2008


Thanks! My source is unstructured and must remain so for the near
term...no resources for conversion at this time.

> -----Original Message-----
> From: martin.smith at golehtek.com [mailto:martin.smith at golehtek.com]
> Sent: 2008-07-21 10:44
> To: Kelly McDaniel
> Cc: FrameUsers List
> Subject: Re: Framemaker and Twiki
> 
> Hi Kelly,
> 
> If your FrameMaker documents are structured, the path isn't all that
> difficult.
> 
> I have achieved similar results by writing a script in the FrameScript
> language that does the following:
> 
> 1) Recurse the element hierarchy of the Frame source files and encode
> the documents in XML.
> 
> 2) Load the XML into the Microsoft XML Active X Control.
> 
> 3) Apply an XSL transform to achieve the desired markup.
> 
> 4) Push the resulting files to their destination.
> 
> The ability of FrameScript to work with OCX controls and databases
> makes this a fairly straightforward process. I personally find this
> path more straightforward than working directly with the FDK and
> Frame's built-in XML encoding tools.
> 
> There are a number of freeware tools out there that will help you
> build the necessary XSL transform and preview the resulting code.
> 
> Best regards
> 
> Martin
> 
> Martin R. Smith
> www.golehtek.com
> 
> 
> Quoting Kelly McDaniel <kmcdaniel at pavtech.com>:
> 
> > I'm looking to feed a local Twiki with Framemaker. Does anyone have
> > experience with such foolishness?...tnx, Kelly.
> >
> >
> >
> > Kelly M. McDaniel
> >
> > Information Developer III
> >
> > Pavilion Technologies
> >
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> >
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> >
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