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On 4/26/07, Lech Rzedzicki <xchaotic@xxxxxxxxx> wrote:
Hi.
Or, if you don't want to do that, you could use a conversion tool like WebWorks. The latest version changed from using their proprietary scripting language to using regular old XSLT, so it's basically an XSLT engine that natively understands MIF. :D As to the formatting -- XML has no formatting unless you create it. That means XSL for transforming to HTML, XSL-FO for transforming to PDF. Depending on your authoring tool (if people will be authoring in XML) it means writing something like CSS (XmetaL, many others), XSL (Altova Authentic is an example, I'm sure there are others), FOSI (Arbortext, unless they finally let you use something else), or EDDs (structured Frame). Framemaker can generate EDDs that use the same formatting you had all along. You can also use to to output to PDF so you wouldn't need to develop XSL-FO for a PDF output (XSL-FO is great, but it can be pretty time consuming to write and perfect). There are many ways do it straight from fm, using .mif or RTF intermediately, or using .ps/PDF and using visual styles as hints for XML tags etc.
But what I'm looking for is simplicity and automation. Can you recommend any free/open-source tools that I could use to go FM->XML, while preserving as much formatting metadata as possible (layout, headings, tables etc)?
-Katie
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