Mixing structured/unstructured files in a book

[_Yvon_MIOSSEC_]

Hi,

I have books with structured files (FM 7.1). All run well ...

Now, I have to include unstructured files into these books just to
produce PDF's files (one PDF per book) mixing the two kinds of file.
That seems to run weel too.

My problem is to make crossreferences (or just hyperlinks) from my
structured files to my unstructured file from my XML files.
I can do it directly with FrameMaker using crossreference markers but I
want to automate this operation because the XML of my structured files
is produced by a RDBMS.

Of course, I can change my DTD, "rules" and "EDD" files.

Thanks for yours ideas

Arfany

[frameexpert]

You could use FrameScript to automate a task like this. If you contact me offlist and tell me exactly what you want to do, I can give you an idea of what is possible. Thanks.

Rick Quatro
rick at frameexpert dot com
585-659-8267

[_Yvon_MIOSSEC_]

Rick_Quatro@adobeforums.com a formulé la demande :
> You could use FrameScript to automate a task like this. If you contact me
> offlist and tell me exactly what you want to do, I can give you an idea of
> what is possible. Thanks.
>
> Rick Quatro
> rick at frameexpert dot com
> 585-659-8267

Thanks Rick,

But I'll try to use the "normal" way as Russ tell me.

Arfany

[Russ Ward]

Arfany, you'll need to put markers in the unstructured file for the xrefs to target, then modify your XML generation process to create links to them. I would think that you could use either the cross-reference mechanism or hypertext links, depending on what you wanted to do with the XML. That is, assuming that you can load a marker-based xref properly from XML... I'm not positive about that.

Does this answer your question at all? I'm not sure exactly what you are asking.

Russ

[_Yvon_MIOSSEC_]

Russ Ward a formulé la demande :
> Arfany, you'll need to put markers in the unstructured file for the xrefs to
> target, then modify your XML generation process to create links to them. I
> would think that you could use either the cross-reference mechanism or
> hypertext links, depending on what you wanted to do with the XML. That is,
> assuming that you can load a marker-based xref properly from XML... I'm not
> positive about that.
>
> Does this answer your question at all? I'm not sure exactly what you are
> asking.
>
> Russ

Hello Russ,

Thanks, more that two years after, you are always here to help me :-)

So, this amswer to my question but I practice FrameMaker from time to
time and I have some problems to manipulate "rules", "edd" and so on
...
In fact, I already put markers (type "RC") on my unstructured files but
my problem is to modify the rules and the EDD and I did not know if
possible it was. You tell me that possible it is.

I understand that you are not positive about that, but I have no time
to structure all and the project ends ...

Arfany

[Russ Ward]

Arfany,

If you have "newlink" hypertext markers in your unstructured file, all you would have to do is get your XML generation system to create "gotolink" markers to point to them, which should create a functional link following import. I have done this sort of thing before and it works very well. I would think that you should also be able to have the XML system create cross-references which point to Cross-reference markers in the unstructured files, but I'm not positive about that.

In either case, you will need someone who is experienced with FrameMaker and XML to make it work. That kind of knowledge is probably beyond our capacity to convey over these forums.

Russ

[_Yvon_MIOSSEC_]

Russ,

I managed! I dont know if it is the better way but it run ...

In my "rules" file :
------------------------
element "plref"
{
is fm marker element "gotoPL";
attribute "lien" is fm property marker text;
}
------------------------

in the xml :
------------------------

My text ...(FC004).

------------------------

A element "marker" binded on my tag "plref" in my EDD (gotoPL) and the
DTD modified.

Thanks for your help Russ!

Arfany

[_Yvon_MIOSSEC_]

Russ,

I managed! I dont know if it is the better way but it run ...

In my "rules" file :
------------------------
element "plref"
{
is fm marker element "gotoPL";
attribute "lien" is fm property marker text;
}
------------------------

in the xml :
------------------------

My text ...(FC004).

------------------------

A element "marker" binded on my tag "plref" in my EDD (gotoPL) and the
DTD modified.

Thanks for your help Russ!

Arfany

[Russ Ward]

Arfany,

Good work... that's the general idea I had in mind. There are a number of ways to do it, and if that one works for your needs, I'd say you've solved the problem.

Russ