Lin,
The method you used to solve your problem is perfectly valid. Another
possibility is to assign paragraph level formatting to the BugNum
element and assign TextRangeFormatting to the Number and Title elements.
You don't use a DTD to define how the text looks. In XML, a DTD does
not define how text looks, it defines the semantic structure of a
document. It's basically just the general rule from the EDD. This is
different from structured Frame, where the EDD defines the semantic
structure of the document and provides formatting information.
For all practical purposes, the two XML samples you provided are
identical. If you were to use the XML in non-Frame work flow, you would
need to create an XSL transform or use some other method to provide the
formatting.
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Mike Feimster
Documentation Analyst
ACS Technologies
180 N. Dunbarton Drive
Florence, SC 29501
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[mailto:framers-bounces+mike.feimster=acstechnologies.com at lists.frameuse
rs.com] On Behalf Of Lin Surasky
Sent: Monday, July 16, 2007 7:44 PM
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: More than one element in a paragraph?
Hi all-
I'm still plodding along in my downtime, setting up a structured
application so that eventually I'll be able to import XML data from our
development (bug-tracking) database. I have the basics working, but I'm
not sure how to break up the bug (er, feature) information. Right now I
just have an element, BUG, that has a general rule of BugNum,
Description. BugNum = Number, Title. I want these to be separate
elements because they're separate fields in the bug tracking system. But
I want the number and title to be in a single paragraph.
What do I need to do? I've worked around it by assigning Number a
special run-in paragraph format, but in the long run I want to get away
from formatting in FrameMaker as much as possible, and use the DTD to
define how the text looks.
So what I have is:
<BUG>
<BugNum><Number>Bug 1234: </Number>
<Title>Yet Another Bug in the System</Title></BugNum>
<Description>It don't work so good.</Description>
</BUG>
What I want is:
<BUG>
<BugNum><Number>Bug 1234: </Number><Title>Yet Another Bug in the
System</Title></BugNum>
<Description>It don't work so good.</Description>
</BUG>
I can provide my EDD if that'll help diagnose what's missing; I just
don't know what else would be helpful at this point.
Thanks very much!
Lin
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