What is the purpose of round-tripping Structured Framemaker and XML
FeiMin_Lorente at amis.com
FeiMin_Lorente at amis.com
Thu Sep 11 10:27:37 PDT 2008
Hi Celine:
I round-trip to XML and I don't translate. I do it for a few reasons:
Some of my SMEs don't like to work in a WYSIWYG environment, so I convert
the chapters to XML and they can use their favourite editor. That also
meant I didn't have to buy them a FrameMaker license.
Some of our documentation is in the source code. We have scripts that pull
out the information and tag it with XML and I can import that directly
into FrameMaker. It's been a wonderful way to keep some of the
documentation updated.
Some activities are easier to do on text than in FrameMaker. I think the
last time I did that, I had to remove an element or an attribute that I'd
made obsolete. I supposed I could have used MIF, but XML is cleaner.
Anyway, this is a fringe case...I don't do this very often.
If none of these reasons apply to you, you certainly don't have to worry
about round-tripping. I have some constraints on what I do in the FM
documents because I have to make sure they will round-trip, so if would be
easier to not have to worry about those things.
Fei Min Lorente
"Celine Deguire" <celdeguire at gmail.com>
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What is the purpose of round-tripping Structured Framemaker and XML
Hello Framers
I'm trying to figure out why I would need to round-trip between Structured
Framemaker sources and XML. I thought it would be for translation purposes
but one of my translators tells me that Trados (Tag editor) allows editing
(translating) structured FM sources as well as XML.
Regards
Celine
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