Structured FrameMaker: Building Structured Applications
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In this Structured FrameMaker training class, students will learn to build structured applications, which control the import and export of XML/SGML in FrameMaker.
Location
Public Classes: Delivered live online via WebEx and guaranteed to run . Join from anywhere!
Private Classes: Delivered at your offices , or any other location of your choice.
Goals
- Learn to build structured applications in FrameMaker
Outline
- Building Structured Applications
- Reviewing basic XML conversion
- Setting the structured application
- Saving a file to XML
- Importing an XML file into FrameMaker
- Setting up EDDs and DTDs
- Creating an EDD from a DTD
- Creating a DTD from an EDD
- Correcting parsing errors
- Updating an EDD with DTD information
- Setting up your structured application in FrameMaker
- Creating a template for a structured application
- Creating a TechDoc DTD
- Copying needed files to an application directory
- Setting up the application
- Testing the conversion
- Correcting conversion errors
- Creating read/write rules in FrameMaker
- Creating a new read/write rules file
- Adding new read/write rules
- Checking read/write rules
- Controlling graphic output in FrameMaker
- Modifying the Para definition in the DTD to allow graphics
- Controlling graphic conversion
- Controlling the DPI of converted graphics
- Controlling table conversion in FrameMaker
- Modifying the DTD for table conversion
- Modifying the read/write rules for tables
- Converting books in FrameMaker
- Converting a book file to XML
- Modifying the read/write rules for book round-tripping
Class Materials
Each student in our Live Online and our Onsite classes receives a comprehensive set of materials, including course notes and all the class examples.
Class Prerequisites
Experience in the following is required for this FrameMaker class:
- Experience with authoring unstructured documents in FrameMaker
- XML
- EDD