Using DITA map to build FrameMaker book

[Ronquillo, Michael]

I'm interested in learning DITA. Anyone know of any books or courses
that deal with DITA?

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Subject: Re: Using DITA map to build FrameMaker book

Hi Barbara,

you may want to post this in the dita-users group on Yahoo:

    * http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/dita-users/
    * http://tech.groups.yahoo.com/group/framemaker-dita/


Indeed, FrameMaker 8 does not support DITA 1.1 yet. If you want to 
author DITA content in FrameMaker, you may want to use the DITA-FMx 
plug-in, which can do more:

http://www.leximation.com/dita-fmx/

Good luck

Yves Barbion 
Scripto
Belgium



Barbara Stuhlemmer wrote:
> Good morning all:
>
>  
>
> I have content that has been written in XML using DITA standards. The
DITA
> map was created by XMetaL for DITA 1.1. FrameMaker 8.0 has a tutorial
on how
> to build a book from a DITA map but when I follow the steps I get
errors and
> FrameMaker crashes. 
>
>  
>
> Possible problems: 
>
> FrameMaker cannot use DITA 1.1 yet, 
>
> FrameMaker cannot read an XMetaL generated DITA map
>
> I have screwed something up in the content
>
>  
>
> I do not have the error message but if someone felt they wanted to
know it I
> can go through the steps again I just have to find the tutorial again
:-)
>
>  
>
> Has anyone been successful converting content using a DITA map to a
> FrameMaker book? If so what is your 'take' on the issue I am having?
>
>  
>
> Thanks for your input.
>
>  
>
> Barbara Stuhlemmer
>
> ClearComm Information Design
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