At 09:13 AM 10/19/2006, Daniel Osborn wrote:
If you use the is fm property rule to translate a markup attribute to
a FrameMaker property, the markup attribute does not also appear as a
FrameMaker attribute.
My question is, is there a way to do this so that the markup attribute
does appear as a attribute of the element in Frame. I'd like to keep
this value so I can test it in the edd and format the text in the table
accordingly.
Daniel,
Why do you want to do so? The information is stored in both the FM and
XML representations of the document. As you've described, when you open an
XML document, FM uses the attribute value to set the table format. When you
save the FM document to XML, FM will export an attribute.
If you map the XML attribute to an FM attribute, there's no way to keep
the table format in synch with the attribute value. When you insert a new
table in a document, the Insert Table dialog box will appear, allowing you
to select a table format. Short of a plug-in or FrameScript, there's no way
to ensure that the selected table format is the same as an attribute value.
Furthermore, you can always change the format of an existing table within
FM. Again, there's no way to validate that you've changed an attribute
value as well.
Nevertheless, if you really want to do so, you might be able to use the
rule:
attribute "otherprops" {
is fm property table format;
is fm attribute;
}
If this does work (and I don't have time to test it now), I suspect the
actual table format rather than the attribute value is used on export.
--Lynne
Lynne A. Price
Text Structure Consulting, Inc.
Specializing in structured FrameMaker consulting, application development,
and training
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