Re: questions re Structured FM7.2 to FM11

[Matt Sullivan]

Hi Cheryl,  You'll need to validate your EDD (shouldn't be too tough) and recreate a StructApp for Fm11 based upon what you had for Fm7. Again, shouldn't be too tough to recreate your environment. Fm11 includes a StructApp designer, and other details for the improvements to Fm11 (about 50% of the upgrade is related to structure) are in the FrameMaker 11 Reviewer's Guide.  Here's a link to the Reviewer's Guide: http://mattrsullivan.com/2013/10/fm11rg -Matt Matt R. Sullivan  co-author Publishing Fundamentals: Unstructured FrameMaker 11  P: 714.798.7596 | C: 714.585.2335 | m...@mattrsullivan.com  @mattrsullivan LinkedIn facebook mattrsullivan.com  On Oct 24, 2013, at 9:52 AM, dwyer...@verizon.net wrote: Background: My company recently purchased FM11 and after using FM7.2 forever, I'm now learning my way around FM11 one-day-at-a-time. I had created structured FM7.2 files and was working on round-tripping them to-XML-and-back several years ago, when we were "overtaken by events" and I never did get the XSLT stylesheets worked out. Present: In opening my old FM7.2 structured files, I'm finding all the work I did on creating EDDs and other special files for XML pretty much obsolete or so it seems. (The structure dev guide was a huge help back then...) Is there a magic bullet or two that I can use to be able to re-use the 34-page EDD (lots of thought and work put into that way-back-when), or should I just start over from scratch and let FM11 do the heavy lifting that the marketing blurbs on it says it will do? Any pitfalls I should be aware of? Advice? Books I should get? Is there a FM11 structure dev guide available? Any help or suggestions are welcome! Thanks! Cheryl Dwyer

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