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fabrizio1981
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July 14, 2010
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MIL-STD 40051C - where to begin

  • July 14, 2010
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Hi everyone...I am fairly new to structured framemaker and spent the last week reading every piece of information I could on the subject.

I've been given the task here at work of taking some unstructured framemaker documents and structure them using MIL-STD 40051C as a guide.

If someone could please give me some help on this....I don't even know where to begin. Information overload. I have a DTD provided to me, as well as a folder containing XSL stylesheets for what seems like nearly every tag and a boilerplate folder.

Some of the links for my source material can be found here:

https://pubsweb.redstone.army.mil/DTD-FOSI/40051C-AMCOM.html

http://www.asrl.com/tmconstr.htm

So far I have imported the DTD to framemaker and saved as an EDD. Everything seems to be fine there. As far as the next step, I really have no idea.

I presume that if I wanted to build, lets say, a cover page...I would refer to the standard and build a page using the tags described.

I have given this a try and all I get is a tree structure with no formatting. How am I supposed to link to a stylesheet in Framemaker? What's more...there are about 50 styles in the folder I was provided so how do I know which one I am supposed to refer to?

Basically this is a huge scope of an effort that I am just getting my feet wet in, so if someone who is familiar can PLEASE give me some initial guidance it would be sincerely appreciated. I can't even find any documentation for this stuff on the web so this is my only hope.

Thanks very much

- Doug

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mjdeslon
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July 14, 2010

We are in the same boat...that standard causes all kinds of problems with framemaker. The process we are using is using frame to author the documents and generate xml, then I use a application I wrote using PHP to generate HTML documents for the deliverable....good luck.

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fabrizio1981Author
Participating Frequently
July 14, 2010

Thanks it sounds like I am going to need some luck...I am just not grasping the concept of what I need to do here

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mjdeslon
Known Participant
July 14, 2010

You can import the DTD to create the EDD for frame...that is where you need to start.

Michael

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fabrizio1981Author
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July 14, 2010

PS...I am using Framemaker 7.1.

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Russ Ward
Brainiac
July 14, 2010

Doug,

About the best anyone could do here is direct you to the Structure Developer's Guide, found in the OnlineManuals folder in the FM installation area. However, you should note that the range of tasks that you must accomplish represent a very complex array of issues that can take a person months to understand and years to become proficient. If this is not feasible for you, I would suggest that your only other option is to hire a consultant for assistance and/or training. Otherwise, this is a worthy pursuit, but one that takes lots of time and a strong willingness to innovate. For much of it, knowledge comes from your own experimentation, rather than any published work.

Russ

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