Problem formatting text with XHTML structured app

[Ben Hardesty]

Roger,

You are correct on the first count: I forgot to reimport the element
definitions into the template.

Thanks,
Ben

On Thu, Nov 18, 2010 at 10:00 AM, Roger Shuttleworth <
rshuttleworth at avbasesystems.com> wrote:

>  Hello Ben
>
> A couple of things that occur to me first off:
>
> 1. You have reimported element definitions into your template and/or
> document? And, of course, you do have to import them into your document (not
> just the template, which is only used when you create a new document).
> 2. Are your spellings of para formats exactly the same in the EDD as in the
> template/doc? They are case-sensitive.
> 3. Other than that, there may be a different rule (perhaps on a higher
> element) that is overruling your text format rules. They are very finicky in
> that regard. There's a section in the Structured Developer's guide on
> inheritance of format rules.
>
> And a question: You say that the formats are not being applied, but do your
> paragraphs actually get the formatting applied?
>
> Feel free to respond directly or to the group.
>
> Roger
>
> Roger Shuttleworth
> Technical Documentation
> AV-BASE Systems Inc.
> 1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200
> London, Ontario
> N5V 3S4
> Tel. 519 691-0919 ext. 330
>
> ------------------------------
> *From:* Ben Hardesty [mailto:ben.hardesty at gmail.com]
> *To:* framers at lists.frameusers.com
> *Sent:* Tue, 16 Nov 2010 12:43:57 -0500
> *Subject:* Problem formatting text with XHTML structured app
>
>
> I'm running into an issue trying to apply paragraph formats to text using
> the XHTML structured application. I need to open an XHTML file in
> FrameMaker 8.0 so that each HTML tag is mapped to a specific paragraph
> format in my Frame template.
>
> In the XHTML EDD file, I updated the TextFormatRules child element for the
> p, h1, h2, h3, and h4 elements to use the appropriate paragraph formats
> included in the template file (for example: TextFormatRules >
> ElementPgfFormatTag > Heading1).
>
> However, when I open the XHTML file, none of the paragraph formats are
> applied to the elements; they all just appear as modified "body" text.
>
> I've double (and triple) checked, and the template in the structured
> application includes the correct paragraph formats, and they're spelled
> correctly in the EDD. Anyone have any clue why the paragraph formats aren't
> being applied?
>
> --
> Ben
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-- 
Ben