Re: Idea for managing EDDs and DTDs

[eric.dunn@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx]

Dan,

I've already played with the EDD-DTD and Meta-EDD quite extensively. Following
great advice from Lynne Price and using some of the ideas she has shared through
the Meta-EDD and other resources she has made available.

To get started with my versioning idea it's as simple as:
     - Create a new EDD then File>Developers Tools>Export Element Catalog as
EDD. (Meta-EDD or ' The EDD for EDDs')
     - From Meta-EDD File>Developers Tools>Save as DTD. (Meta-EDD DTD, 'the DTD
for the EDD for EDDs' Is your head swimming yet? ;-))
     - From new EDD file Special>Remove Structure From Flow and delete all body
page content. (EDD Template)

So having the Template, DTD, and EDD components for SGML EDDs is straight
forward.
(I suppose simple is a relative term. I get a headache with so many acronym
adjectives being thrown around. ;-) )

What I thought was to work on the EDD in FM and when complete do a save as SGML.

Then various versions of an EDD and various branches can then be stored in a
versioning system as deltas and retrieved as required. Getting the DTDs is as
simple as pulling out the correct EDD SGML file and then opening it in
FrameMaker and doing a save as DTD.

Eric L. Dunn



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