One paragraph style -> Many Elements

[Lynne A. Price]

At 10:50 AM 2/12/2010, Eric Geissinger wrote:
>I'm working on an unstructured Frame book, getting it structured via the 
>Conversion Table method (Frame 9) using a custom EDD.
>
>...
>What is the best way to map a single paragraph style (for example, 
>heading_2) to differently named containers depending on the content of the 
>paragraph style (text).

Eric,
   Since a conversion table is not context sensitive, the earlier responses 
that a conversion table cannot handle this situation is correct. Rather 
than manual retagging, however, what I do in this situation is use a 
conversion table to create a preliminary structure. I save the result as 
XML and use XSLT (which can look at both the element tagging derived from 
the conversion table and the content) to create the final structure which I 
then read back into FrameMaker. Since the XSLT transform can be run as 
either a postprocess on the original save or a preprocess on the import, to 
the user the conversion appears to involve three steps:

1) Apply the conversion table

2) Save the result as a temporary XML file

3) Open the XML

   XSLT can do other useful things such as remove content that was typed in 
the unstructured document but becomes a prefix or suffix in the structured 
version.

         --Lynne



Lynne A. Price
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