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<p class=MsoNormal>Hi all<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>My boss has mentioned the possibility of transferring our unstructured
Frame docs to structured XML format. I have NO experience of structured FM and
to be honest I’m a bit intimidated by it! (Boss is technical but knows
little about tech writing tools btw)<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>He thinks that it will make it easier to share our doc set
with other parts of the company which has just acquired us – but he’s
not totally sure – so I’m looking into it. I’m not even sure
this is correct. <o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>I am the sole author here and make heavy use of conditional
text as we have several different clients and many product variants. I
currently use Frame 8 on Windows.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Could you kind guys please tell me the pros and cons of
transferring from unstructured to structured? Any caveats or things to watch out
for would be appreciated .As I say, I know nothing about structured FM or XML
at all, but have many years of experience in unstructured.<o:p></o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><o:p> </o:p></p>
<p class=MsoNormal>Many many thanks<o:p></o:p></p>
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<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Laura
Fergusson<o:p></o:p></span></p>
<p class=MsoNormal><span style='font-size:10.5pt;font-family:Consolas'>Technical
Author<o:p></o:p></span></p>
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