Not producing .xml files

Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com Dave.Stamm at gdc4s.com
Wed Jul 31 14:36:48 PDT 2013


2013-07-31-03T21:35Z

Windows 7 Enterprise operating system
FrameMaker 11.0.2.384 [ stand-alone with the first two updates ]
.book file and its children are on a server on the local area network

Please help me figure out and correct what we are doing wrong.  A colleague who has FrameMaker 11 (with all three updates, out of Technical Communication Suite) gets the same useless results. 

FrameMaker is not producing .xml files.  Instead, it is producing files with extensions of .e01, .e02, through .e30 and such.  These ".enn" files are less than useless to us.

We have imported element definitions

This happens both when, in the .book window:

     a.  I choose the .book file and all its children.

     b.  On the menu bar, I choose File | Save as XML.

	- AND WHEN -

     c.  I choose only the .book file.

     d.  On the menu bar, I choose File | Save Book As... > .xml.

   1.  File structapps.fm is in C:\Users\[name]\AppData\Roaming\Adobe\FrameMaker\11.  File structapps.fm contains element <XMLApplication> that points to:

     a.  the \ .dtd

     b.  the rules file

     c.  the folder that contains .ent files

   2.  The rules file (on server) contains:

fm version is "11.0";

/*
 * Include all ISO entity mapping rules.
 */
#include "isoall.rw"

/*  element "xref" drop;
*/
fm marker drop;

/*  writer external dtd is
public "-//USA-DOD//DTD MIL-STD-2361 TM 
**   Assembly REV D 4.12 20120930//EN":
 */

writer do not include sgml declaration;

/*
 *writer do not output book processing instructions;
 */

/* writer declare entities for graphic and icon-set elements;
 */
element "graphic" 
{
is fm graphic element;
attribute "boardno" is fm property entity; }

element "icon-set" 
{
is fm graphic element;
attribute "boardno" is fm property entity; }


Help, please, and thanks in advance.
Dave Stamm
Information Engineer




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