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Subject:RE: Using DITA map to build FrameMaker book From:"Ronquillo, Michael" <mronquillo -at- equitrac -dot- com> To:"Yves Barbion" <yves -dot- barbion -at- gmail -dot- com>, <barbstuhlemmer -at- rogers -dot- com> Date:Wed, 5 Mar 2008 12:10:14 -0500
I'm interested in learning DITA. Anyone know of any books or courses
that deal with DITA?
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Subject: Re: Using DITA map to build FrameMaker book
Hi Barbara,
you may want to post this in the dita-users group on Yahoo:
Indeed, FrameMaker 8 does not support DITA 1.1 yet. If you want to
author DITA content in FrameMaker, you may want to use the DITA-FMx
plug-in, which can do more:
Barbara Stuhlemmer wrote:
> Good morning all:
>
>
>
> I have content that has been written in XML using DITA standards. The
DITA
> map was created by XMetaL for DITA 1.1. FrameMaker 8.0 has a tutorial
on how
> to build a book from a DITA map but when I follow the steps I get
errors and
> FrameMaker crashes.
>
>
>
> Possible problems:
>
> FrameMaker cannot use DITA 1.1 yet,
>
> FrameMaker cannot read an XMetaL generated DITA map
>
> I have screwed something up in the content
>
>
>
> I do not have the error message but if someone felt they wanted to
know it I
> can go through the steps again I just have to find the tutorial again
:-)
>
>
>
> Has anyone been successful converting content using a DITA map to a
> FrameMaker book? If so what is your 'take' on the issue I am having?
>
>
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
>
>
> Barbara Stuhlemmer
>
> ClearComm Information Design
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