MindTouch > FrameMaker migration ideas

[Rick Quatro]

Hi Robert,

If the XHTML is valid XML (which it should be), you could use FrameScript
and MSXML to parse through the XML and convert the content to unstructured
FrameMaker. Obviously, this would be a custom solution, but it could be
pretty much push-button if the input is consistent. If you send me an input
and output sample, I can give you an idea of what is possible. Please let me
know if you have any questions or comments. Thank you very much.

Rick

Rick Quatro
Carmen Publishing Inc.
585-283-5045
rick at frameexpert.com

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[mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Robert Lauriston
Sent: Thursday, August 23, 2012 5:19 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: MindTouch > FrameMaker migration ideas

I have developers drafting stuff in a MindTouch Core wiki that needs to be
incorporated into unstructured FrameMaker documents. MindTouch Core has no
native export function. The source is XHTML.

Best bet I've found is copying from IE in WYSIWYG mode and pasting as RTF.
Formatting is largely preserved so it's clear what needs to be cleaned up.
XHTML tags such as <code> and <h2> show up as paragraph tags. Maybe I could
even rename the FM paragraph tags to match and stuff would reformat
automatically or if I removed overrides.

Conceivably I could switch to structured FrameMaker, import the XHTML, and
switch back to unstructured, but that seems unlikely to be faster or
cleaner. I can't just do it in structured as I'm stuck with an existing
template.

Anybody have any other ideas?