[possible idiot question] Can DITA 8 live in FM 7?
Scott Prentice
sp at leximation.com
Mon May 5 13:13:35 PDT 2008
Hi Art...
Opening a structured document in unstructured mode will wipe out all of
the structure. However, you can save an FM8 DITA file to an FM7 or MIF7
file and open it in FM7.x (as long as structured mode is enabled), make
edits, then reopen in FM8 and save back to XML. It's possible that while
in FM7.x if the wrong thing is edited, you might break a reference of
some kind, but in general it *should* work. Note that it's not really
recommended that you save DITA XML files to FM binary files and edit
them (in FM8 or otherwise). People do this and in general it works fine,
but you can run into problems saving back to XML and some of the
"auto-open" features don't work right.
However, you can install DITA-FMx 0.0 (free) on FM7.1 or FM7.2 and then
you're able to open/edit an FM8 DITA XML file then give it back to the
FM8 author and all would work just fine. (There's nothing special about
an FM8 DITA file .. it's just DITA XML .. you can open/edit in any XML
editor.)
http://www.leximation.com/dita-fmx/
Cheers!
...scott
Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com
+1.415.485.1892
Art Campbell wrote:
> Has anyone tried creating a DITA document in FM 8, saving as FM 7 MIF,
> and then opening in unstructured 7.1 / 2?
> Can the 7.x user make text edits (not wholesale reformatting or tag
> changes) without trashing the "hidden" DITA structure and data?
>
> Thanks,
> Art
>
>
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