Adobe FrameMaker 7.0 Structured: Importing and exporting

Objectives

This course is designed for SGML application designers and anyone else who needs to understand and potentially modify the translation between FrameMaker+SGML documents and SGML documents. This course discusses the relationship between FrameMaker+SGML and SGML. In particular, this course teaches you to define FrameMaker +SGML applications that allow end users to open SGML documents as formatted FrameMaker+SGML structured documents and to save structured documents back as SGML. It also teaches you to automatically create a FrameMaker+SGML EDDs from an SGML DTD, and a DTD from an EDDs. The course describes the default translation FrameMaker+SGML employs in the absence of any customisation as well as how to use the read/write rules to specify variations from this default.


Pre-requisites:

The Authoring Structured Documents training course or a good working knowledge of the FrameMaker+SGML authoring environment . Ability to work with FrameMaker+SGML structured templates. Basic knowledge of SGML concepts and sent including familiarity with SGML DTDs The Defining Structure: EDDs and Other Tools training course or familiarity with developing EDDs


Course Includes:

A comprehensive set of reference notes covering course topics, follow-up telephone support and, for training on Transmedia premises, lunch and refreshments.


Course Outline


· The correspondence between FrameMaker + SGML constructs and SGML constructs
· Converting SGML DTDs to FrameMaker + SGML
· EDDs and the reverse
· Converting document instances to structured documents and the reverse
· Creating FrameMaker+SGML applications and working with SGML application files
· Creating read/write rules
· Understanding the default translation for elements, attributes, entities, graphics, cross references and other special objects






· Mapping SGML elements to Frame objects such as tables, graphics, equations and cross-references
· Renaming elements and their attributes or attribute values
· Dropping SGML elements or their content attributes on import to FrameMaker+SGML
· Dropping FrameMaker+SGML elements or their content or attributes on export to SGML
· Importing books