Hi everyone Thanks for the answers! I'm feeling slightly embarrassed to admit that I'd forgotten MIF2Go did DITA. I've chucked it in the engineer's direction.
Cheers Rebecca >>> "Jeremy H. Griffith" <jeremy at omsys.com> 9/12/13 20:49 >>> On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:00:50 +1300, "rebecca officer" <rebecca.officer at alliedtelesis.co.nz> wrote: >We're currently in the process of converting from >Unstructured FrameMaker files to DITA using FrameMaker 11. >The engineer who's working on the conversion has a >question about cross-references. When he structures >the document using the conversion table, he'd like to >be able to save the Idref value for the cross-reference >as an attribute in the element it is wrapped in. At the >moment, when he structures the document, all he can >manage is to wrap the text in a <xref> element. That's just one of hundreds of problems you will have trying to use the conversion table method. It's grossly inadequate. Links, graphics, tables... it's a long list. >If anyone's got any ideas about how to do this - or about >how else to avoid having to manually re-create thousands >of cross-refs - I'd be really grateful! The engineer's >happy with scripting, esp Python, so it doesn't have to >be a purely FM solution. Um, you already *have* Mif2Go. We spent quite a few engineer-years working with DITA TC members on many large conversion projects (including IBM's) to get it right. And to make it as easy as possible. This has actually become the second-biggest use case for Mif2Go (the biggest is still conversion to Word). Save yourself a BIG bundle of time and money, and use it. -- Jeremy H. Griffith, at Omni Systems Inc. <jeremy at omsys.com> http://mif2go.com/ _______________________________________________ You are currently subscribed to framers as rebecca.officer at alliedtelesis.co.nz. Send list messages to framers at lists.frameusers.com. To unsubscribe send a blank email to framers-unsubscribe at lists.frameusers.com or visit http://lists.frameusers.com/mailman/options/framers/rebecca.officer%40alliedtelesis.co.nz Send administrative questions to listadmin at frameusers.com. Visit http://www.frameusers.com/ for more resources and info. NOTICE: This message contains privileged and confidential information intended only for the use of the addressee named above. If you are not the intended recipient of this message you are hereby notified that you must not disseminate, copy or take any action in reliance on it. If you have received this message in error please notify Allied Telesis Labs Ltd immediately. Any views expressed in this message are those of the individual sender, except where the sender has the authority to issue and specifically states them to be the views of Allied Telesis Labs. -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20131210/c17906a6/attachment.html>