Hi Roger, The Dita Open Toolkit includes a plugin, h2d, that converts HTML to DITA. As you suspect, the cleaner and more pristine the HTML is, the smoother the conversion. I have converted HTML authored in both RoboHelp and Flare to DITA and it's not a painless process as both products introduce a lot of proprietary namespaces and...uh, creative tagging to their HTML. In those cases, I have had better luck writing a batch find/replace file tailored to the flavor of HTML I am working with. It takes some time up front and the results still need cleaning up, but I believe the net is a time savings and it is a process not limited to Frame.
Best, Leigh --Forwarded Message Attachment-- From: rshuttlewo...@avbasesystems.com To: framers@lists.frameusers.com Date: Thu, 17 Jun 2010 09:04:34 -0400 Subject: Converting HTML to structured FrameMaker Hello All We have a legacy Help system, authored in Robohelp, so all the original content is HTML. We would like to import the HTML into FrameMaker, preferably structured, preferably DITA. There are about 300 pages involved. I'm wondering if one route would be HTML > XHTML, and then some kind of a transform to DITA XML. However, I'm not optimistic about consistency of tagging in the HTML. Any ideas? Thanks. Roger Roger Shuttleworth Technical Documentation AV-BASE Systems Inc. 1000 Air Ontario Drive, Suite 200 London, Ontario N5V 3S4 Tel. 519 691-0919 _________________________________________________________________ Hotmail has tools for the New Busy. Search, chat and e-mail from your inbox. http://www.windowslive.com/campaign/thenewbusy?ocid=PID28326::T:WLMTAGL:ON:WL:en-US:WM_HMP:042010_1 _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as arch...@mail-archive.com. Send list messages to fram...@lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscr...@lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/archive%40mail-archive.com Send administrative questions to listad...@frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info.
