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<div class="moz-cite-prefix">I think the answer to your question is
somewhere between No and It Depends, but closer to No. It gets
back to the structure vs. display issue. FrameMaker tries to give
you both the XML world and the WYSIWYG world in one package. A
more typical XML editor (like the new XML view in Frame 11) is
just a text-based markup language editor that doesn't know
anything about display. The XML output from such an editor gets
turned into a formatted document by other software that transforms
it (XSL and that stuff) based on the elements and attributes. This
is how XML can get used in lots of different ways
(single-sourcing). Different transformations yield different
formatting based on the target display platform.<br>
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If FrameMaker, that display transformation takes place in real
time in the interaction between the EDD and the para and char
formats in your document based on the elements and attributes in
your structure plus specific formatting overrides in the EDD. This
means there is a temptation to build in a lot of attributes and
formatting that is Frame specific. For example, some of my
elements include whether or not I want the para or heading to be
at the top of a page. This is entirely display related and
something that would almost certainly be frowned upon if you were
writing for multiple display environments.<br>
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Therefore, if you are round tripping for distribution in other
display environments, I would actually suspect that you would want
to minimize the format related stuff in your structure, rather
than maximize it because the framemaker-specific formatting would
make less sense when transforming to other display environments.
If you are round tripping just for editing purposes and it always
comes back to FrameMaker for printing/PDF, then that is less of an
issue and you can do what works best for you. Even in that case,
you might not want to burden the authors with format related
attributes to think about. <br>
<br>
Hope I've been at least somewhat coherent in my comments. I've
probably simplified things a little. I don't do any round
tripping, so I can't speak much to the pitfalls.<br>
<br>
Fred<br>
<br>
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On 9/13/2012 6:29 PM, rebecca officer wrote:<br>
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<div>Hi guys</div>
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<div>If you're planning to roundtrip through XML, with different
authors using different XML editors, you'd need to have all the
formatting in the EDD, right?</div>
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<div>Or am I on completely the wrong track in my ignorance?</div>
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<div>Thanks</div>
<div>Rebecca</div>
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