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Hi,

Thank you both, I will take a look at using XSLT to do this. I had hoped Framemaker might have a native way to do this, but I guess I can use a different tool, Ubless Framemaker has a way to open and run such an XSLT file?

Cheers

John

Hi John,

this is exactly what XSLT in conjunction with Saxon (FM11 provides Saxon already) is capable of, as Russ already stated.

I'm pretty sure the basics of what you need is explained here:

http://www.xmlplease.com/collection

Everything else is a walk in the park with XSLT. Simply seek the element you want to extract and write it into some new XML file.

-Alex

Hi John,

It is possible, but you would need to do some scripting or use a plugin. You are talking about something conceptually similar to XSLT, perhaps actually XSLT for real. If you are willing to do some development work, there are many routes you can take for this. The XML Author view of FrameMaker has some XSLT capabilities, but I'm not sure if they would be sufficient to accomplish this task in its entirety. With the FDK or ExtendScript, you can also do virtually limitless content manipulation within the regular WYSIWYG view. If you want to get a taste of the possibilities for content manipulation within the normal interface, consider downloading a trial version of my FrameSLT plugin and check out the tutorials.

FrameSLT - West Street Consulting

Russ