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RE: RE: Re: Re: Newbie to XSLT needs help with MIF->X

Subject: RE: RE: Re: Re: Newbie to XSLT needs help with MIF->XML->SGMLoutput
From: Peter Flynn <pflynn@xxxxxx>
Date: Fri, 13 Jan 2006 10:55:54 +0000
mif to xml
On Thu, 2006-01-12 at 23:12, Katie Kearns (kkearns) wrote:
>  
> > -----Original Message-----
> > From: Jay Bryant [mailto:jay@xxxxxxxxxxxx] 
> > Sent: Thursday, January 12, 2006 2:31 PM
> > 
> > More recent versions of FrameMaker will save as XML. I recall 
> > (been a while since I've used FrameMaker, so I could be 
> > wrong) that it's even possible (depending on version and what 
> > resources you might have downloaded) to specify the DTD for 
> > the XML it saves.
> 
> Yep -- you can even use FrameMaker to map your FM tags to XML tags when
> you save it. It's way easier than trying to write a conversion program
> from scratch, since MIF syntax is just plain obnoxious. There are other
> tools out on the market that convert MIF to XML, too, but I'd see if the
> build in ones in Frame work first (they're somewhat simple, though.)

If this is a bulk processing task, I believe DynaTag or its successor
still handles MIF files as well as DOC files and lets you map them to 
XML. Ask Red Bridge (www.rbii.com). If it's a single file, FM is
probably quicker.

///Peter

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