DITA conversion and cross-ref IDs

2013-12-10 Thread rebecca officer
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" 9/12/13 20:49 >>> On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:00:50 +1300, "rebecca officer" wrote: >We're current

Re: DITA conversion and cross-ref IDs

2013-12-10 Thread rebecca officer
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" 9/12/13 20:49 >>> On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:00:50 +1300, "rebecca officer" wrote: >We're curr

DITA conversion and cross-ref IDs

2013-12-09 Thread rebecca officer
Hi everyone 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

DITA conversion and cross-ref IDs

2013-12-09 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi Rebecca I agree with Scott and Jeremy: ? If you want to use conversion tables, then Scott's FM2DITA plugin will definitely help. ? If you have MIF2Go, then most of the cross-references will "just work". Read chapter 15.10 "Configuring cross references and links for DITA" in the MIF2Go Help: h

DITA conversion and cross-ref IDs

2013-12-09 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:00:50 +1300, "rebecca officer" 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 us

Re: DITA conversion and cross-ref IDs

2013-12-09 Thread Yves Barbion
Hi Rebecca I agree with Scott and Jeremy: • If you want to use conversion tables, then Scott's FM2DITA plugin will definitely help. • If you have MIF2Go, then most of the cross-references will "just work". Read chapter 15.10 "Configuring cross references and links for DITA" in the MIF2Go Help: h

Re: DITA conversion and cross-ref IDs

2013-12-08 Thread Jeremy H. Griffith
On Mon, 09 Dec 2013 11:00:50 +1300, "rebecca officer" 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 u

DITA conversion and cross-ref IDs

2013-12-08 Thread rebecca officer
Hi everyone 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

Re: DITA conversion and cross-ref IDs

2013-12-08 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Rebecca... There are two things here that you need to take into account. First is just getting cross-refs to remain linked up through the conversion process from FM to XML. Second is to get those cross-refs to reference the individual topic files that result from "shredding" the chapter-ba

DITA conversion and cross-ref IDs

2013-12-08 Thread Scott Prentice
Hi Rebecca... There are two things here that you need to take into account. First is just getting cross-refs to remain linked up through the conversion process from FM to XML. Second is to get those cross-refs to reference the individual topic files that result from "shredding" the chapter-bas