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### 15.11.1 Understanding how Mif2Go represents variables in DITA

Mif2Go can incorporate into DITA XML output (and also treat as macro variables) any FrameMaker user variables in your document, as well as a few FrameMaker system variables, provided you reference the names of these variables as described in §28.3.5 Treating FrameMaker user variables as macro variables.

Mif2Go supports representing a FrameMaker variable as a <ph> element with a conref to another <ph> element located in a file of such elements, where name and value elements are wrapped in a definition list. Mif2Go also supports including user variables as entities, to allow round-tripping using the Leximation DITA-FMx plug-in: the successor to the Frame 7.2 DITA AppPack withdrawn by Adobe.

However, the default treatment is to convert each variable to text; see §15.11.2 Specifying how to treat FrameMaker variables.

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