<html><body><div style="color:#000; background-color:#fff; font-family:verdana, helvetica, sans-serif;font-size:8pt">I'd say what you're doing wrongly is saving as XML first. Save your unstructured doc as HTML, then copy/smart-paste into the body tag of a new DITA topic. This is just a quick way to get lots of structure for free. If you're talking about a novel, you should really have nothing but <p> tags anyway. You should look up Smat Paste in the docs. It's really an interesting feature.<br><br style="">><br style="" class="">> Save the chapter as HTML, copy it, then use Smart Paste to paste it into<br style="" class="">> a DITA topic. Every P should translate into the correct DITA paragraph<br style="" class="">> element (also a <p>)<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">If I save the chapter as XML, Frame pops up a window asking for which <br style="" class="">Structured Application to
use. If I pick none, an error pops up with <br style="" class="">"Unable to validate because no DTD or Schema was specified in the XML <br style="" class="">file" but continue? I say yes.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">When I open the file, I get this Structure View: (I did this once with <br style="" class="">the paratag as Body and once as Para)<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">-Root<br style="" class="">|--Title<br style="" class="">|--Body (Para)<br style="" class=""> | A-<br style="" class=""> | ID = pgfId-998413<br style="" class="">|--Body (Para)<br style="" class=""> | A-<br style="" class=""> | ID = pgfId-998414<br style="" class="">|--Body (Para)<br style="" class=""> | A-<br style="" class=""> | ID = pgfId-998415<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">I'm presuming this is correct?<br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><br style=""
class="">Cntrl-A to copy the entire file<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Open > New > Dita file > New topic<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">The first time (paratag Body), I found the Element marked <p> and <br style="" class="">clicked Paste Special. I chose Rich Text Format, but all of the text <br style="" class="">appears in the structured view under one single <p> element.<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">The second time (paratag Para) I clicked Smart Paste and got this error <br style="" class="">message "Smart paste could not convert clipboard data to structured <br style="" class="">content".<br style="" class=""><br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">What am I doing wrongly?<br style="" class=""><br style="" class="">Thanks.</div></body></html>