Re: Frame to HTML conversion scenarios

[larry.kollar@xxxxxxxxxx]

Rick Quatro wrote:

> Another approach might be to save structured (FrameMaker+SGML) books to 
XML
> and then transform XML to HTML using XSLT. This might not be any 
simpler,
> though.

I've done this and it works very well. I run a Perl script
over the generated XML to clean up a few nits before running
Sablotron to transform to HTML. If you don't break out in
hives at the thought of using a command line :-) it's very
simple; type two commands and it's done. Some morning when
I'm feeling ambitious, I'll modify the Perl script to start
Sablotron and get it down to one step.


MacOS X would help quite a bit to reduce the process to
"push-button" -- an AppleScript could command FrameMaker
to generate the XML, perform the clean-up itself (or hand
it off to Perl), then call up an XSLT processor to convert
to HTML. You could kick it off by dragging a book file
onto the script icon.


Jeremy has also mentioned his Mif2Go software, which is
probably a good solution if you're on Windows.

--
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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