Structured Framemaker, FDK and XML Blog

Anne Gentle at JustWriteClick has provided a record of her experiences with converting unstructured Framemaker content to DITA structured content in Framemaker. Her work was in Framemaker 7.2 but is probably of interest to Framemaker 8 users as well.

In my experience with Frame 7.2, I wasn’t able to complete the entire complex process, partially due to the unstructured Frame files, partially due to my limitations in getting XSL to work through Framemaker and writing a Framemaker structured application. Feel free to comment on these instructions if you have questions or ideas for where this process may not work well. Note that I haven’t fully studied how this process might change with the introduction of Frame 8, although many of these tips and tricks will still be useful for preparing your content.

I plan to share this with a group I know looking at DITA content authoring and single sourcing…