convextech,
I did find a framemaker plug in for editing dll templates.
http://www.framescript.com/About_FrameScript/Questions_and_Answers.htm
However, the problem seems to me that the mapping between the xml
output and the sgml is incorrect.
You might want to take a look at the SGML dtd.
Also, isn't there any older generations of this document through this
workflow? At least you could find some XML and SGML that was valid
even in an older edition in order to reconstruct the conversion from
framemaker mif to sgml.
This doesn't seem to be simply a XSLT problem.
FrameMaker is not part of my workflows.
Mike Ferrando
Library Technician
Library of Congress
Washington, DC
202-707-4454
--- convextech(_at_)alltel(_dot_)net wrote:
I've been lurking on this list trying to learn XSLT due to a
project that landed in my lap and so far I've managed to fix some
things, but can't for the life of me fix the other stuff. I have
four days to *at the very least* get all of the technical data out
of a 4,000-page book that I can move around via scripts (or
manually, if I have to), once it's all output.
The XML configs & XSL stylesheets I have were written to go along
with an application that takes a FrameMaker MIF
file and transforms it to XML, then SGML. I think a major part of
the problem is that some of the transformation of the data is done
by the application's DLLs. I don't have the source code, and
frankly I don't even want to start messing with that! I am no
programmer and this is already way over my head as it is. Yeah, the
easy part would be to just ask the developer but he got religion
this summer, quit his job, and went to Mexico to be a missionary.
;-)
I don't know if there's a way to decompile the DLLs or what, but
again, I don't want to go there. I'd like to work around it and if
possible, simply do the transforms & debugging through Stylus
Studio or a similar program without the application itself.
'Course, it would help if I understood how the hell to debug the
damn thing in the first place! I've been running the app, then
editing the XSL over & over until I get it right. ;-)
Here are my problems so far (in the SGML):
- missing <chghistory> (required element that should appear after
<tmidno>)
- <doctype> ouputs with two instances of the text, plus text from a
pgf that should have been ignored.
- <modelno> missing (required element that should appear after
<nomen> within <prtitle>)
- one table missing from Front Matter
- in the <pl> chapter, any empty element (or empty cell in FM) is
opened at that level, but is not closed (i.e., I need to see
<partno></partno><partnosym></partnosym><desc></desc> instead of
<partno><partnosym><desc></desc></partnosym></partno>).
- <refdes> missing
- The biggest problem I have right now is that a lot of whitespace
is being stripped, i.e., trailing spaces, spaces after commas,
before paretheses, etc.
I've tried preservibg space but then the application craps out
because it evidently needs some of the whitespace deleted.
Is there anyone here that wants to have a gander at it?
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