conversion table question

Jakob Fix jakob.fix at gmail.com
Mon Oct 20 11:55:45 PDT 2008


Thanks Rick,

now that we've managed to structure error-free documents, we no longer
get the Id attributes.  Weird.

Anyway, thanks for your reply, as usual! :)

On Thu, Oct 16, 2008 at 4:53 PM, Rick Quatro <frameexpert at truevine.net> wrote:
> Hi Jakob,
>
> These Id and Idref attributes are usually created to facilitate converting
> the unstructured cross-references to structured cross-references. There is
> no way that I know of to change this attribute name during the conversion. I
> use FrameScript to clean up the cross-references, including renaming the Id
> and Idref attributes to match the final EDD.
>
> Rick Quatro
> Carmen Publishing Inc
> 585-659-8267
> www.frameexpert.com
>
>> Hi,
>>
>> we're evaluating (rather successfully up to some point, I should say)
>> the use of FM8 to structure an unstructured document using a
>> conversion table.
>>
>> The one problem we encounter and can't pin down is the presence of an
>> *Id* (Mixed case) attribute.  We use an unstructured document without
>> any EDD, and still the Id attribute (with a generated unique value) is
>> created and we don't know why and how.  It is not created for all
>> elements.
>>
>> We would much more prefer to have id (lowercase) attributes created,
>> but it seems that this is one of the shortcomings of the structuring
>> method?  The conversion table itself doesn't hold any information
>> concerning any attributes.  I can provide the conversion table if that
>> it helps.
>>
>> Thanks in advance for your help.
>>
>> --
>> cheers,
>> Jakob.
>> _______________________________________________
>
>



-- 
cheers,
Jakob.



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