Karen,
I assume you are working with structured FrameMaker documents? As I
understand your question, you want to produce XML that has both the
cross-reference text and the attributes that identify the link for each
cross-reference. FrameMaker does not write the cross-reference text to XML,
because it is a result of formatting and is subject to change as the
document is edited. If your cross-reference formats don't contain
information such as page numbers which are specific to FrameMaker
formatting, you can use XSLT to recreate the cross-reference text. Given
your "page 147" example, though, you do want FrameMaker-specific
information. A custom FDK client can generate the text you want.
--Lynne
At 05:54 AM 12/1/2005, Karen West wrote:
I produce documentation using Framemaker 7.0 and we are now attempting to
get all of our documentation online in a help system, using a tool written
in-house with our own software (a 4GL called Cyberscreen). My part in this
is to save the individual chapters of each book as xml, producing a .xml and
.css for each chapter, plus make sure all the images are saved as gifs etc.
The problem we are having is with cross-references. They usually appear in
the Frame document as 'see heading on page nn' or 'see chapter xxxxx on page
nn'. In the help system we want them to appear as text only hyperlinks to
the relevant section of the help. The Framemaker xml file simply has an <A>
pointing to a location in the document. There are hundreds of these
throughout the manuals, and for most of them there is no "implied" text. For
example:
<A ID="pgfId-1099643"></A>
Manage the help facility using the HM utility. See <A
href="hm.xml#id(31807)" xml:link="simple" show="replace" actuate="user"
CLASS="XRef"><Hypertext>
page 147</Hypertext>
</A>
Does anyone have any suggestions how we can get proper links into the xml
documents?
TIA
Karen
Technical Writer
Cyberscience Corp UK
http://www.cyberscience.com
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