I'm trying to migrate some legacy documentation to structured format and want to be able to save it to and load from XML. I've had some success creating a conversion table, an EDD and R/W rules, but still have some issues.
I have a couple of files like: file1.fm, file2.fm, file3.fm and a BOOK file which includes those and a TOC. These files have some cross references (e.g. file1 may have a reference to file2). I want to be able to save each separate file to XML and preserve those references.
When I convert a file to structured with a conversion table, external cross references have the IDREF attribute empty (no value). After saving to XML, those xrefs are saved as text, without any tags.
Another question is how do I treat the BOOK file to be able to update page numbering, cross references, TOC and create a PDF version of the documentation? Or I can just load updated XML files, save as FM and treat the book as usual? What is a common practice?
Any help is appreciated!
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