Can FrameMaker 10 and/or 11 *output* raw SGML data?

[frissonic]

Our group has a requirement from the government to output SGML data. Right now, the group from whom we're inheriting data are using UltraEdit to write the text, Arbortext to tag the documents as SGML, and outputting to Xysoft (XPP). The writers are separate from the "coders/taggers." We're hoping to use FM to reduce that process to a single doc for writing and output. There's another requirement to output to pdf, but Acrobat will handle that.

Right now, my concern is finding a way to simplify this process. Can FrameMaker output raw SGML data? If 10 and/or 11 cannot, is there a version that can?

Thanks for any help. I've done some research online, and from what I've read, it's a possibility, but then the tech support guy I spoke with said that neither 10 nor 11 is capable of outputting to SGML ... which is why I'm here.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks, everyone.

[Arnis Gubins]

I would recommend that you contact Lynne Price at Text Structure Consulting  http://www.txstruct.com/contact.htm regarding anything to do with FM and SGML (she was one of the original developers at Frame Technologies that lead to the FrameBuilder - aka FrameMaker+SGML - product).

[peter minneapolis]

I have a complete boxed FrameMaker+SGML 5.5.1 for Windows, never registered, absolutely genuine and legal. I don't know if it would suit your needs. Lynne Price may be able to answer this question. If it turns that you can use it, please write me privately.

HTH

Regards,

Peter

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[Lynne A. Price]

Yes, FM 10 and FM 11 support SGML. The SGML capability has not been enhanced the way XML support has over the last several versions of FM, but the basics are still there.

(And, Arnis, thanks for the recommendation.)

           --Lynne