I was going to ask Robert if he was pasting into a structured doc or not as I have found this technique useful (but not perfect) for use in DITA docs.
Craig From: framers-bounces at lists.frameusers.com [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf Of Yves Barbion Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2013 3:54 AM To: Robert Lauriston Cc: framers at lists.frameusers.com Subject: Re: importing HTML into FrameMaker? Hi Robert I don't know which version of FrameMaker you are using, but Fm 11 has Smart Paste: http://tv.adobe.com/watch/new-in-framemaker11-xml-authoring-features/framemaker-11-smart-paste-unstruct-content-into-xml/ If you are using DITA-FMx, you need to install this "structapps stub" first: http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-fmx-users/files/ I've just tested this with some content which I copied from our Confluence wiki and the results are not perfect but pretty good: * The DITA topic is valid right away (no cleanup of the structure required). * Subheadings in a wiki topic become section titles in a (generic) DITA topic. * A ul/li in the wiki topic is still a ul/li in the DITA topic. * Numbered steps in the wiki topic become ul/li in the DITA topic * Typographic elements (b, i, ...) are OK too Graphics didn't work, but that's obvious. Tables were converted to tables, but the heading row was gone. Also, I used a generic DITA topic. Copying a task description from a wiki and pasting the numbered steps into a task topic doesn't work, because the structure a task topic has a very specific structure. I guess this could be fixed with a "topic-to-task-topic" transformation, using a Framescript or using FrameSLT). Even if you don't write DITA-structured content, I think you could still use DITA as an intermediate step: 1. Create a new generic DITA topic 2. Copy the body section if your wiki. 3. Put your cursor in the body element of the DITA topic and choose Edit > Smart Paste. 4. Choose Special > Remove Structure from Flow to create an unstructured Fm file. 5. With Framescript or the Paragraph Tools plugin, you can then remap the paragraph formats, for example change all [title.1] formats to Heading2. Cheers Yves Barbion www.scripto.nu -------------- next part -------------- An HTML attachment was scrubbed... URL: <http://lists.frameusers.com/pipermail/framers/attachments/20130504/65aa749d/attachment.html>
