Re: [framemaker-dita] Modularised EDDs?

2008-03-10 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 10:05 PM 2/26/2008, Hedley Finger wrote: Is there any way to create a modularised EDD, with a skeleton host file and modules imported as text insets? Hedley, In my earlier post to this thread, I neglected to mention that FrameMaker treats the element tag SGMLFragment specially. This

[framemaker-dita] Modularised EDDs?

2008-03-10 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 10:05 PM 2/26/2008, Hedley Finger wrote: >Is there any way to create a modularised EDD, with a skeleton host >file and modules imported as text insets? Hedley, In my earlier post to this thread, I neglected to mention that FrameMaker treats the element tag SGMLFragment specially. This

Re: [framemaker-dita] Modularised EDDs?

2008-03-09 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 10:05 PM 2/26/2008, Hedley Finger wrote: Is there any way to create a modularised EDD, with a skeleton host file and modules imported as text insets? Hedley, I use text insets heavily in EDDs I create. As others have pointed out, if all your text insets consist of a single element,

[framemaker-dita] Modularised EDDs?

2008-03-09 Thread Lynne A. Price
At 10:05 PM 2/26/2008, Hedley Finger wrote: >Is there any way to create a modularised EDD, with a skeleton host >file and modules imported as text insets? Hedley, I use text insets heavily in EDDs I create. As others have pointed out, if all your text insets consist of a single element,

Modularised EDDs?

2008-02-28 Thread Hedley Finger
Martin, Keith, and others: Yes, Scott's answer is what I was after -- using text insets to build modular EDDs to simplify maintenance and avoid duplicating element substructures and attributes over and over in different locations on the master element tree. As you point out, provided that a

Re: Modularised EDDs?

2008-02-27 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Hedley... Yes .. you can do this, and it works quite well (as long as you don't get too carried away with the modularization). A FM binary file can have any element at the root .. it may be invalid but it will open fine and if it's imported into a container EDD will work fine. Just keep in

Re: Modularised EDDs?

2008-02-27 Thread Hedley Finger
Martin, Keith, and others: Yes, Scott's answer is what I was after -- using text insets to build modular EDDs to simplify maintenance and avoid duplicating element substructures and attributes over and over in different locations on the master element tree. As you point out, provided that a

Modularised EDDs?

2008-02-27 Thread Hedley Finger
Lynne Price, Kay Whatley and others: The DITA DTDs are modularised to allow ready re-use, specialisation and maintenance. Is there any way to create a modularised EDD, with a skeleton host file and modules imported as text insets? I have been studying the Adobe documentation for developing

Modularised EDDs?

2008-02-27 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Hedley... Yes .. you can do this, and it works quite well (as long as you don't get too carried away with the modularization). A FM binary file can have any element at the root .. it may be "invalid" but it will open fine and if it's imported into a container EDD will work fine. Just keep

Modularised EDDs?

2008-02-27 Thread Scott Prentice
Frame doesn't complain about invalid structure if it's in an FM binary file. You'll see red in the structure view, but that's all .. give it a whirl, it works just fine! :) ...scott Hedley Finger wrote: > Martin, Keith, and others: > > Yes, Scott's answer is what I was after -- using text

Modularised EDDs?

2008-02-27 Thread martin.sm...@golehtek.com
Hi Hedley, I gather from your email that you are trying to get the benefits of DITA?creating reusable, modular topics?using FrameMaker?s text inset feature. This approach makes sense, because you would eliminate the need for an expensive, XML-based content management system, which is

Modularised EDDs?

2008-02-26 Thread Hedley Finger
Lynne Price, Kay Whatley and others: The DITA DTDs are modularised to allow ready re-use, specialisation and maintenance. Is there any way to create a modularised EDD, with a skeleton host file and modules imported as text insets? I have been studying the Adobe documentation for developing