Wow. Big question. But here's a nutshell kind of answer...
Yes, you can author in XML in FM 10. DITA XML in particular. You can create
PDFs from DITA XML files by saving your ditamaps or bookmaps to FM
files, and then create a PDF. Or you can create a PDF from your ditamap
if you've been able to format everything as required in your EDD.
Alternatively, you can use other tools to create PDFs such as DITA Open Toolkit
(aka
DITA OT) or WebWorks ePublisher. Here's an article from Scriptorium,
which is a bit old now...tools have advanced since it was written, but
it will give you an idea of some of the challenges you face creating
PDFs from DITA XML: http://www.scriptorium.com/whitepapers/dita2pdf/index.html
The major issues are that you would have to convert your unstructured FM files
to XML. If you create other outputs besides PDFs, you'll need to figure out the
best way to do that. Etc...quite a large undertaking.
A simpler solution would be to find a different translation company that CAN
handle your unstructured FM files.
Nadine
>________________________________
> From: Michael Norton <[email protected]>
>To: [email protected]
>Sent: Saturday, December 3, 2011 10:47:26 AM
>Subject: Frame 10 XML/translation question
>
>
>Our company will be translating some manuals from English to Japanese. The
>translation service only accepts HTML and XML input and outputs the result in
>those same formats. I am currently using Frame 7.2. I understand Frame 10.0
>works in XML.
>
>I realize you can’t give me an absolute answer, but how easy would it be to
>pull the translated output (in XML format) back into Frame for publishing as
>PDFs?
>
>Are there any major issues with taking this approach?
>
>Thanks.
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