It seems like everything I try hits a dead end.. ever have one of those days (weeks (years))?
Anyway, I'm still on 7.2 until the company decides to upgrade.
I have two FM books that I save to XML. I don't author the content of the books, I created the two EDDs and the StructuredApp so they can be saved to XML. I also write the XSLT scripts to do the work on the files.
So, I run an XSLT script against the saved XML that takes information from both books and builds a third set of XML files. I bring these into a third book and wah-la, I have reached my destination.
Except, nobody likes the workflow, there's 'too many steps' and 'I have to understand Structured Framemaker', so I end up doing it for them. What I wanted to do was to move it all to unix and use fmbatch to do the saving as XML and reading generated XML back into FM format.
Except, it seems fmbatch hasn't been updated in a while and doesn't understand XML. I'm now looking at the unsupported FMPython to do the same thing on a PC. It appears to understand XML well enough to do what I need. I've got Python 2.2 loaded and I can run some really simple example scripts.
Except, the documentation is weak and google isn't coming through on providing me with any really interesting examples to work from.
So, I turn to you, members of this forum. Does anyone have any ideas on opening XML and saving as FM?
Help me Obe Wan Kenobe, you're my last hope.
Thanks,
- m
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