I have been watching this thread with not a little interest. This sounds like the West Street Consulting plug-in "InsetPlus" would be the tool of choice. Wouldn't hurt to take a look at it.
http://www.weststreetconsulting.com/WSC_PurchaseDownloads.htm And the price is right, free. -----Original Message----- From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] m] On Behalf Of Jim Light Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 12:34 PM To: List, Framers Subject: RE: Conversion Insets to SFM Follow up? All my insets are currently unstructured FrameMaker files. The conversion would leave them as structured FrameMaker files, I suppose. If so, that means that when I export the container file as XML all the insets would be included within the XML. TO get separate XML files on export, then after I convert all the insets and container files to SFM, I need to export all the insets to XML and then open the container files and redo each inset specifying the XML file instead of the FM file. Then when I export the container file as XML, all the XML insets remain separate XML files. Is that right? So in terms of the "Source-code control" aspects of a content management system, which files are the source files, the FM files or the XML files? You can easily make either one from the other. Does it matter? Thanks Jim -----Original Message----- From: Lynne A. Price [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] Sent: Monday, May 08, 2006 9:56 AM To: Jim Light; List, Framers Subject: Re: Conversion Insets to SFM At 08:30 AM 5/8/2006, Jim Light wrote: >I need to create a conversion table to convert a non-structured document >to SFM. ... How does the conversion mechanism deal with insets? Jim, Since text insets remain text insets when a document is structured, the conversion table cannot change the imported content. In particular, it cannot specify an assignment of elements within them. It can wrap a new element around them. Use the code TI: in the first column of the conversion table to specify text insets. >My second question is: When I save a structured file as XML, if the file >contains a text inset, is this reference saved as a reference in the XML >file or is the content of the inset sucked into the XML file (or do I >have a choice)? That depends on the type of text inset. An XML text inset is saved as an entity reference; other text insets are converted to text on export. --Lynne Lynne A. Price Text Structure Consulting, Inc. Specializing in structured FrameMaker consulting, application development, and training [EMAIL PROTECTED] http://www.txstruct.com voice/fax: (510) 583-1505 cell phone: (510) 421-2284 ============================================================ The information contained in this message may be privileged and confidential and protected from disclosure. If the reader of this message is not the intended recipient, or an employee or agent responsible for delivering this message to the intended recipient, you are hereby notified that any reproduction, dissemination or distribution of this communication is strictly prohibited. If you have received this communication in error, please notify us immediately by replying to the message and deleting it from your computer. Thank you. Tellabs ============================================================ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to Framers as [EMAIL PROTECTED] Send list messages to [EMAIL PROTECTED] To unsubscribe send a blank email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to [EMAIL PROTECTED] Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.