Hi Doris, To be short: moving to XML does give you the opportunity to use different templates with different conditions and paragraph tags set - as long as you all use the same structure.
Is it that he wants to be able to hide some parts of the structure while writing and display it in a different formatting while writing? That should not be a problem (although a challenge for the template developers). In structured FM, each paragraph tag is connected to a structural element (actually the other way round: each element will get a paragraph format based on its position in the structure and optional attribute settings). So is each condition. Based on the same element set (DTD or schema) you may make different templates or even constraints in FM (omit elements from the EDD so they're not available in the template). Using a constraint EDD however will display errors when opening a document that is valid according to the DTD but has elements that you've omitted in the template. Basic line is: you've got to use all the same basic structure (DTD or Schema) but there's no reason to all use the same formatting or style. I guess your question is more of a manageability issue. You have a problem if the writer means that he wants to use a different element set. Vriendelijke groet, Wim Hooghwinkel At my company, we are preparing to go from unstructured FM10 to structured FM10. Because of all of the messages on this board and generally accepted "best practices", we are doing some clean-up and preparation now before trying to implement a structure. However, we have at least one writer (we all report to different managers) who wants certain conditions and paragraph tags that will then *not* be in all of the documents. In the past, we have not done this. We all have the same character and paragraph tags, and conditions, loaded. My question is - will there be problems moving to structure and XML output if we start having this kind of style drift? Thanks - D
