RE: Getting data from xml into Frame was, Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

2007-05-22 Thread Mike Feimster
Carrie XSLT is short for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations . It is a programming language used to transform XML from one syntax to HTML, plain text, or another XML syntax, etc. For example. Lets say you have an XML file that looks like this: Document HeadingHello

Re: Getting data from xml into Frame was, Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

2007-05-22 Thread Yves Barbion
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Getting data from xml into Frame was, Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

2007-05-22 Thread Mike Feimster
Carrie XSLT is short for Extensible Stylesheet Language Transformations . It is a programming language used to transform XML from one syntax to HTML, plain text, or another XML syntax, etc. For example. Lets say you have an XML file that looks like this: Hello World Lorem Ipsum

Getting data from xml into Frame was, Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

2007-05-22 Thread Yves Barbion
See also: http://www.w3schools.com/xsl/default.asp Yves Barbion Documentation Architect Adobe-Certified FrameMaker Instructor Scripto bvba Asselsstraat 65 9031 Gent Belgium T: +32 494 12 01 89 F: +32 9 366 50 32 BTW (VAT) BE 0886.192.394 skype: yves.barbion

re: Getting data from xml into Frame was, Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

2007-05-21 Thread Carrie Baker
Slightly connected to this. We have Frame 7.2, not structured and are doing fine. We are a small (understaffed) department of 2 half time writers. There is one very large chapter of a user guide which is based on information from the programmers .xml file. Their xml file consists of a list of

Re: Getting data from xml into Frame was, Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

2007-05-21 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Carrie... For starters, you should get ahold of an XML diff tool (just google xml diff, and you'll see lots of options) so you can determine exactly what has changed between versions of this XML file. You should be able to get one of your developers to write an XSLT transformation that

Re: Getting data from xml into Frame was, Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

2007-05-21 Thread Scott Prentice
XSLT is a scripting language for processing XML files. See .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xslt XSLT is not a Frame-specific language, and if your developers use XML very much, someone is bound to be able to write a simple XSLT script to generate a list of parameters/fields .. something that

Re: Getting data from xml into Frame was, Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

2007-05-21 Thread Carrie Baker
As I hoped I am getting some interesting answers. However, since I have not worked on structured Frame yet, and am not so famailiar with the terminology, can you explain was an XSLT transformation is? On 5/21/07, Scott Prentice [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: Hi Carrie... For starters, you should get

Getting data from xml into Frame was, Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

2007-05-21 Thread Carrie Baker
Slightly connected to this. We have Frame 7.2, not structured and are doing fine. We are a small (understaffed) department of 2 half time writers. There is one very large chapter of a user guide which is based on information from the programmers .xml file. Their xml file consists of a list of

Getting data from xml into Frame was, Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

2007-05-21 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Carrie... For starters, you should get ahold of an XML diff tool (just google "xml diff", and you'll see lots of options) so you can determine exactly what has changed between versions of this XML file. You should be able to get one of your developers to write an XSLT transformation that

Getting data from xml into Frame was, Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

2007-05-21 Thread Scott Prentice
XSLT is a "scripting" language for processing XML files. See .. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Xslt XSLT is not a Frame-specific language, and if your developers use XML very much, someone is bound to be able to write a simple XSLT script to generate a list of parameters/fields .. something that

Getting data from xml into Frame was, Do I need to jump into the Structured FM pool?

2007-05-21 Thread Carrie Baker
As I hoped I am getting some interesting answers. However, since I have not worked on structured Frame yet, and am not so famailiar with the terminology, can you explain was an XSLT transformation is? On 5/21/07, Scott Prentice wrote: > Hi Carrie... > > For starters, you should get ahold of an