Importing an xml document into structured Frame (version 8)

[Theresa de Valence]

Sam, the thing is that a bizarre Frame document is opened on the
receiving end--that can't be coming from Windows, can it?

Thanks,
Theresa

On 6/24/2013 9:50 AM, Lizak, Samantha wrote:
> Just a suspicion -- the only XML I have worked with was for Eclipse
> docs -- but the XML tools I was most familiar with were coded in
> Unix/C/Java flavors.  Access is, of course, Windows.
>
> One of the things that used to drive us nutty when we would look at
> our Unix files from our corporate-mandated work PCs was that the PC
> tools kept adding control-Ms to the end of lines, which would then
> break our Unix-based parsing engine.
>
> Perhaps something like this is happening?  FrameMaker has its roots
> in Unix, also.  You might want to check how the XML tools expect
> end-of-line to be indicated, and what their maximum element or line
> length is.
>
> I'd like to think that all these years later they've made tools where
> the OS and <CR> vs <CR><LF> doesn't matter, but, well, freeware
> tools....
>
> Good luck-
>
> Sam.