importing HTML into FrameMaker?

[Craig Ede]

I was going to ask Robert if he was pasting into a structured doc or not as I have found this technique useful (but not perfect) for use in DITA docs.

 

Craig

 

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com] On Behalf Of Yves Barbion
Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 3:54 AM
To: Robert Lauriston
Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Re: importing HTML into FrameMaker?

 

Hi Robert

I don't know which version of FrameMaker you are using, but Fm 11 has Smart Paste:

http://tv.adobe.com/watch/new-in-framemaker11-xml-authoring-features/framemaker-11-smart-paste-unstruct-content-into-xml/

If you are using DITA-FMx, you need to install this "structapps stub" first:

http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-fmx-users/files/

I've just tested this with some content which I copied from our Confluence wiki and the results are not perfect but pretty good:

*	The DITA topic is valid right away (no cleanup of the structure required).
*	Subheadings in a wiki topic become section titles in a (generic) DITA topic.
*	A ul/li in the wiki topic is still a ul/li in the DITA topic.
*	Numbered steps in the wiki topic become ul/li in the DITA topic
*	Typographic elements (b, i, ...) are OK too

Graphics didn't work, but that's obvious. Tables were converted to tables, but the heading row was gone.

Also, I used a generic DITA topic. Copying a task description from a wiki and pasting the numbered steps into a task topic doesn't work, because the structure a task topic has a very specific structure. I guess this could be fixed with a "topic-to-task-topic" transformation, using a Framescript or using FrameSLT).

 

Even if you don't write DITA-structured content, I think you could still use DITA as an intermediate step:

1.	Create a new generic DITA topic
2.	Copy the body section if your wiki.
3.	Put your cursor in the body element of the DITA topic and choose Edit > Smart Paste.
4.	Choose Special > Remove Structure from Flow to create an unstructured Fm file.
5.	With Framescript or the Paragraph Tools plugin, you can then remap the paragraph formats, for example change all [title.1] formats to Heading2.

Cheers

 

 

Yves Barbion
www.scripto.nu 

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