Keeping graphic paths during conversion from FM to xml

[_Anna_Furtner_]

Hi All,

I'm converting unstructured FM-documents to structured FM-documents and then to xml.
In my conversion table I put in graphics instead of certain paragraph formats:
P:pi_hinw -> image[href="../bilder/piktogramme/hinweis_de.eps"]

So far everything works fine.
In my structured FM-Dokuments the new graphics are displayed as well as the old ones which already were in the unstructered FM-Document.

Now if I convert the structured FM-document to an xml-document, the graphic paths of my old graphics are lost. But the new ones (image[href="../bilder/piktogramme/hinweis_de.eps"]) are still displayed.

If I save the stuctured FM-document as xml-document, FM somehow does convert the graph paths of the old graphics, but the new ones are lost!

Is there a way, I can keep both during conversion to xml:
old graphic paths which are hidden somewhere in FM and new ones which are stored in an attribute?

Thanks in advance,
Anna

[Michael_Müller-Hillebrand-basb]

Anna,

are you sure the "new graphics" are shown because of the new attribute? The path to external graphics is a FrameMaker property (not an attribute) which is never visible inside the FrameMaker document structure (like e.g. the number of table columns).

I guess (or suggest) that note graphics like the one you are using, are included in the documents by means of the Frame Above/Below feature and included only on a Reference Page. Maybe that is what the template designer did (or should do).

Anyway, to export the path of a referenced graphic you would use a read/write rule similar to

element "image" {
is fm graphic element;
attribute "href" is fm property file;
}

- Michael

[_Anna_Furtner_]

Hi Michael,

I'm quite sure that the "new graphics" are shown because of the new attributes. At least the attributes are displayed in FM (I had a look in the Structure View and also opened the Attribute window).
It is already the structured FM-document, I'm writing about here.
So I don't unterstand why the path to the external graphic could not be inserted in an attribute.
Also, what I don't understand is: Why does FM delete the existing attributes when I save my FM-document directly as xml?

I tried to convert the structured FM-document with a separate application just for converting. In the read/write rules for this application I have tried exactly the rule you suggested (and also a few alternatives).
If I choose "StructureTools > Utlities > Convert Docmunets to Structured Format" to convert the FM-document, the "old graphics" with the hidden path vanish and only the "new graphics" stay in the document.
-> The read/write rule does not help much here.
But I assumed as much as I was browsing the other topics in this forum.

I guess the only way to keep the graphics with the hidden path is to save the FM-document as xml.
So I have the choice between keeping my cross-refs and the note grpahics or keeping the old graphics. Am I right?

By the way: You are right. In our unstructured documents the note graphics are included by a Reference Page. But the not graphics contain text and as we want to keep our templated non-verbal, we decided to not insert the note graphics by a Reference Page anymore.

Anna