FM 2015 Documentation for unstructured to structured conversion tables

Thank you both for replying to my original post. I have looked at the referenced document but to be honest I see very little different between that and one I have that references FM7. However I will study this in more detail.

I send an email to Tom to see if the seminars can be re-instated.

Again, thanks a lot.

Regards

Martyn

The FrameMaker Learn & Support page has reference links that you need, including the PDF for the Structured Application Developer Guide. On page 80 under Working with legacy documents, there is a general procedure for constructing a conversion table to apply structure to an unstructured document.

However, there's a training video that you would find useful. In the list of Adobe Online Seminars, refer to parts 1 & 2 of Unstrucutred to XML Workflow E-Seminar (see below):

• Part 1: Analyzing Your Unstructured Document - Preprocess Steps
• Part 2: Creating a FrameMaker Conversion Table - Part 1
• Part 3: Creating a FrameMaker Conversion Table - Part 2
• Part 4: Element Definition Document (EDD) - Home Grown or a Standard Structure
• Part 5: Creating your Structured Template from an Unstructured One
• Part 6: Structured Applications and What is Necessary / How to Create
• Part 7: Save as XML, Now What?

Unfortunately, the seminar videos appear to have been removed recently (within the past two months). A quick search turned up Tom Aldous' blog with a reference to the videos, but the repository for those videos is again the Adobe Online Seminars (linked above).

I'll try sending an e-mail to Tom Aldous and request that the videos be re-posted.

You might want to have a look at the Structured Application Developer Reference guide (FrameMaker 2012 version) http://help.adobe.com/en_US/framemaker/2015/StructuredDev/Structure_Dev_Reference.pdf

This  contains a pretty good set of building blocks for creating a conversion table. Generally there is some tidy up required afterwards, but a lot of the heavy lifting is done.