I'm sure there are other reasons, but a some that come to mind are using
are:
1. Editing/processing the files with different XML editor.
2. Processing the text with XSL or another programming language.
3. Storing the files in content management system or source control
system. Although you can
Hi Celine:
I round-trip to XML and I don't translate. I do it for a few reasons:
Some of my SMEs don't like to work in a WYSIWYG environment, so I convert
the chapters to XML and they can use their favourite editor. That also
meant I didn't have to buy them a FrameMaker license.
Some of our
Basically .. if your publishing process uses the XML files at some
point, you're better off editing the XML files directly (round-tripping
the XML) rather than editing the binary files and saving to XML
occasionally. A binary FM file can contain content that may not be
allowed in the XML data
Hello Framers
I'm trying to figure out why I would need to round-trip between Structured
Framemaker sources and XML. I thought it would be for translation purposes
but one of my translators tells me that Trados (Tag editor) allows editing
(translating) structured FM sources as well as XML.
