EDD example for crossreferences and markers

[Lynne A. Price]

At 02:09 AM 4/15/2009, Surbhi Singhal wrote:
>Could anyone please share some working sample examples on roundtripping (EDD
>-> XML - > EDD) for Cross-references and Markers.

Surbhi,
   Does your application have a DTD or read/write rules?

FrameMaker by default represents a marker element in XML in the form <tag 
type = "Index" text = "blah"/> where tag is the element name and type and 
text are attributes that exist in XML but not FrameMaker. As the names 
imply, type is set to the marker type and text to the marker text. If your 
application has a DTD but the DTD does not define the attributes, they are 
not generated. There are read/write rules that allow you to change the 
attribute names and to put the marker text in the element's content rather 
than an attribute value. Framemaker writes non-element markers as 
processing instructions.

Element-based cross-references export as empty elements with an XML-only 
attribute for the cross-reference format and one that indicates the source 
of the cross-reference. For internal cross-references, the latter is named 
id unless the FrameMaker element has an IDREF attribute, in which case the 
name of the first such FrameMaker element is used. For external 
cross-references, the attribute name is srcfile. Again, if you have a DTD, 
the XML-only attributes are only generated if they are declared.

         --Lynne




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