Re: Branching and merging FM filesets, how to?

[Peter Gold <peter@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

Larry:

Thanks for the reply. I wasn't sure if it would break. Thanks for the
confirmation.

Regards,

Peter Gold
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On 10/17/03 11:26 AM, "Larry.Kollar@arrisi.com" <Larry.Kollar@arrisi.com>
wrote:

>> I believe that the unique IDs that you suggest removing from MIF would
> break
>> cross-references. When FM recreates a binary file from the MIF, how
> would it
>> know how to connect the unique ID in the cross-reference marker to a
>> paragraph that gets a new ID?
>> 
>> Have you tested this?
> 
> Yes. Here's a couple of snippets:
> 
>  <XRef 
>   <XRefName `heading & page'>
>   <XRefSrcText `33911: ph: Replacing the Backup Battery (TM02xx102
> only)'>
>   <XRefSrcIsElem No>
>   <XRefSrcFile `'>
>   <XRefLastUpdate  1066397288 0>
>   <Unique 16204>
>> # end of XRef
>  <String `\xd2 '>
>  <String `Replacing a Backup Battery Pack'>
>  <String `\xd3  on page'>
>  <Char HardSpace>
>  <String `4'>
>  <Char HardHyphen>
>  <String `8'>
>  <XRefEnd >
> 
> [a big pile of MIF in-between shoveled out]
> 
>  <Marker 
>   <MType 9>
>   <MTypeName `Cross-Ref'>
>   <MText `33911: ph: Replacing the Backup Battery (TM02xx102 only)'>
>   <MCurrPage `8'>
>   <Unique 16136>
>> # end of Marker
> 
> I think Frame matches up the XRefSrcText with the marker's MText to
> resolve
> the cross-reference. In any case, deleting the Unique tags doesn't make a
> difference -- indeed, I deleted everything between the "end of XRef" and
> "<XRefEnd >" lines and Frame was able to reconstruct that information as
> well.
> 
> So yes, I think this could work.
> 
> --
> Larry Kollar, Senior Technical Writer, ARRIS


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