Many thanks to all who replied to this. I now have more information at my 
fingertips and feel more in a position to show the pros and cons!

Laura

From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com 
[mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Laura Fergusson
Sent: 23 March 2012 13:58
To: framers at lists.frameusers.com
Subject: Unstructured to structured FM?

Hi all

My boss has mentioned the possibility of transferring our unstructured Frame 
docs to structured XML format. I have NO experience of structured FM and to be 
honest I'm a bit intimidated by it! (Boss is technical but knows little about 
tech writing tools btw)

He thinks that it will make it easier to share our doc set with other parts of 
the company which has just acquired us - but he's not totally sure - so I'm 
looking into it. I'm not even sure this is correct.

I am the sole author here and make heavy use of conditional text as we have 
several different clients and many product variants. I currently use Frame 8 on 
Windows.

Could you kind guys please tell me the pros and cons of transferring from 
unstructured to structured? Any caveats or things to watch out for would be 
appreciated .As I say, I know nothing about structured FM or XML at all, but 
have many years of experience in unstructured.

Many many thanks

Laura Fergusson
Technical Author
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