Course Outline:
Lesson 1: Overview
- About Structured and Unstructured FrameMaker 7.2
- Structured and Unstructured Documents
- About Structured Authoring
Lesson 2: Structured Authoring Setup:
- Setting up your computer for the Structured FrameMaker XML Authoring
Lesson 3: Application Setup:
- Setting up Structured FrameMaker for Importing and Exporting XML
- Components of a Structured FrameMaker XML Application
- Setting up the XML Application
Lesson 4: Creating Read/Write Rules:
- Creating the rules that Structured FrameMaker uses to import and export XML
- Rules for mapping names, applying formatting, and managing multiple files and books
Lesson 5: Enabling Namespaces:
- What Namespaces are and why they are useful
- How FrameMaker 7.0 handles Namespaces
- Enabling Namespaces in structapps.fm
- Defining how Structured FrameMaker handles XML Namespaces or Import or Export
Lesson 6: Document Schemas:
- Creating an EDD from a DTD
- Finishing the DTD Conversion
- Importing the EDD into a Structured FrameMaker template
- Adding formatting controls
Lesson 7: Reading XML Documents:
- Opening and rendering an XML document as a Structured FrameMaker document
Lesson 8: Reading XML Fragments:
- Importing an XML fragment into a Structured FrameMaker document
Lesson 9: Structured Authoring:
- Using Guided Editing to easily edit and validate a Structured FrameMaker document
- Editing Documents
Lesson 10: Writing an XML Instance:
- Exporting an XML instance from a Structured FrameMaker document
- Writing XML with a CSS2 Stylesheet
- Defining the behavior of Structured FrameMaker for creating a CSS
- Referencing a CSS
Lesson 11: Writing XML with an XSL Stylesheet
- Employing XSL when exporting XML documents