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size=2 face=Arial>Hello,</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2 face=Arial>Thanks for the reply.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2 face=Arial>Oxygen does indeed look promising. </FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2 face=Arial>What would be the general method of enabling our engineers
(mostly electrical designers and technicians with no knowledge of xml, or time
to get under the hood) to author topics with Oxygen? How do I get Oxygen to
see/utilize the template and EDD I'm using in Framemaker? What template files of
mine do they need access to?</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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size=2 face=Arial>Thanks again.</FONT></SPAN></DIV>
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<P><SPAN lang=en-us><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Stephen Nelson</FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>Technical
Writer</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT size=2
face=Arial>Ameritherm, Inc./Ambrell</FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>39 Main
St.</FONT><FONT face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT size=2
face=Arial>Scottsville, NY 14546</FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT size=2
face=Arial>snelson@ambrell.com</FONT><FONT
face="Times New Roman"><BR></FONT><FONT size=2 face=Arial>585.889.0288
(office)</FONT></SPAN> </P>
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<FONT size=2 face=Tahoma><B>From:</B> Yves Barbion
[mailto:yves.barbion@gmail.com] <BR><B>Sent:</B> Tuesday, November 15, 2011 2:12
AM<BR><B>To:</B> Steve Nelson<BR><B>Cc:</B> Framers<BR><B>Subject:</B> Re: Xml
editors?<BR></FONT><BR></DIV>
<DIV></DIV>Hi Steve
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<DIV>As Scott said, a "free XML editor" is fine to create basic DITA topics.
However, what will happen if they need to update the topics which you have
edited in FrameMaker, using DITA features such as conrefs, keyrefs, inline
elements etc.? Instead, you may want to use a good, professional XML editor like
oXygen XML Author, which is almost free (starting at $349). It gives you plenty
of bang for the buck and comes with some very nice transforms (to WebHelp ePub
etc.) out-of-the-box. We use it in combination with DITA-FMx for authoring and
publishing DITA 1.1 content. <BR><BR>Cheers<BR>
<DIV class=gmail_quote><BR></DIV>-- <BR>Yves Barbion<BR><A
href="http://www.scripto.nu">www.scripto.nu</A><BR></DIV>
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