## 13.10 Converting structured documents to HTML

You can use Mif2Go to convert structured FrameMaker documents. Mif2Go fully supports structured cross references; however, Mif2Go does not use structure tags and attributes for any other purpose.

The conversion is based on paragraph and character formats, not on elements, so you must use distinct format names to get distinct effects in the output. Specify a different format in your FrameMaker EDD for each element type that needs to be visually distinct in the output, rather than using Body with overrides for everything. In other words, use the EDD to create exactly the sort of formatting used in unstructured files.

If you are stuck with a one-format EDD, you can retain in the HTML most (but not all) of the overrides; however, you have to accomplish this with font tags and align attributes, which makes CSS pretty much useless for the resulting HTML.

Mif2Go treats cross references that rely on attributes of the referenced element (instead of on paragraphs and markers) the same as unstructured cross references or hypertext links.

See also:

§14 Converting to generic XML

| 13.9 Importing HTML files as insets |  | 13.11 Converting conditions to HTML attributes |