Re: Conversion tables

[Larry.Kollar@xxxxxxxxxx]

The usual process is to wrap the HeadingX titles in
whatever you're using to contain titles, then wrap
the titles & paragraphs in section elements. A (very
sketchy) DocBook conversion table would look something
like this:

Wrap this object        In this element With this qualifier
P:Heading 1     Title           h1
P:Heading 2     Title           h2
P:Para          Para

E:Title[h1],Para*       Sect1
E:Title[h2],Para*       Sect2
(Sect1|Sect2)+  Chapter

You can have the conversion table do as much of the
structuring as you want, although in my experience you
start hitting diminishing returns at around 90% complete
(assuming complexity you typically see in a documentation
project). Since you probably won't use the conversion
table much after the initial flurry, go for the low-hanging
fruit and fix the harder stuff by hand.

--
Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS
"Content creators are the engine that drives
value in the information life cycle."
    -- Barry Schaeffer, on XML-Doc





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I am learning structured Frame 7.0 and am playing with building a
conversion table to stucture unstructured documents.

I have a situation like this (everything being paragraphs formats):

Heading 1
  Para
  ...
  Para
  Heading 2
    Para
    ...
    Para

the initial table shows
P:Heading 1     in  Heading1
P:Para          in  Para
P:Heading 2     in  Heading2

Then I am trying to apply the structure.

What should I do so the "Para" in Heading 1 are wrapped in Heading1 and
the ones in Heading 2 are wrapped in Heading2?

I can put:

E:Para    in Heading1
or
E:Para    in Heading2

(Doing both does not make much sense).

Should I reformat the unstructured document so there are two kinds of para
and convert both to the Para element with different qualifiers?

 or 

Should I wait and modify the structure in the EDD?

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