Keith’s Blog

[Read this for an introduction to what I'm talking about].
Now that we’ve got our FrameMaker documents in XML, how can we exploit their new format? One of the first things I did was to create new ways of reading (eventually changing) the simple data stored within them. This isn’t all that earth-shattering, but when you [...]

[Read this for an introduction to what I'm talking about].
The first step of doing anything useful with MX is the ability to get back out into MIF. Thankfully, this is an entirely trivial job in XSLT.
[This code thanks to my boss, Andrew Savikas.]

<?xml version=”1.0″?>
<xsl:stylesheet version=”1.0″
xmlns:xsl=”http://www.w3.org/1999/XSL/Transform”>
<!– author: Andrew Savikas, O’Reilly Media –>

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My O’Reilly colleague Andy Bruno has just written a pair of posts on converting FrameMaker’s MIF (link may be old/die) format into XML (henceforth ‘MX’). I’ll be writing a few posts outlining the ways in which we’ve leveraged MX at O’Reilly.
[Update: Series continues here with getting back into MIF, and reading bookfiles.]