Re: FM to FM+SGML

[Dan Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxx>]

At 10:19 AM 10/7/99 -0700, Lynne A. Price wrote:
>Art,
>  To add a little introduction to Dan's email, FM+SGML provides a tool
>(see File > Utilities > Structure Current Document or Structure Documents)
>for deducing element structure from the format-oriented tags (paragraph
>tags, character tags, and so on) in an unstructured document. The original
>document may have been created in FM or filtered into FM from a word
>processor format.
>  How appropriate this tool is to your situation depends on how closely
>the tags in the unstructured document correspond to the elements you want
>in the structured one and how rigorously the tags have been applied within
>the original documents (how much ad hoc formatting is there?).
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The "appropriateness" of using structure rules tables was, I thought,
covered quite thoroughly in points 2 thru 9 of my original post.
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>Depending
>on the quantity of data to be processed, it may make sense to augment the
>results with an FDK client that looks for particular text strings in the
>document or removes some text that can be automatically generated in a
>structured document.
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Seems like overkill to use an FDK client for the type of work you describe
above. If FDK clients or FrameScripts, or just plain ol' Find/Replace are
used, for the kind of work you describe above, it should be done on the
unstructured docs before they are converted.

I could see using FrameScripts to automate some of the post-conversion work,
although I don't believe that product yet has the capability to do anything
with EDD-defined objects.
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>  There are also various SGML tools (and consulting firms that specialize
>in such conversions) that might be appropriate for some situations.
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Are you talking here about tools like OmniMark, or something else?
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