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Classroom in a Book
Why XML is useful
Markup languages use structured data. You define a framework or schema to structure
the data and then add the data. If you can represent data in a structured format, you can
create markup language files. A structured file can be used to create HTML files for
different browsers, a consistent starting point without recreating the wheel for each site.
Structured FrameMaker documents let you turn your data into HTML, XML, or SGML
efficiently, without having to be a programmer.
FrameMaker’s structured authoring identifies (wraps) text as elements, represented by
tags, which are in turn contained (wrapped) within other elements. This establishes a
document hierarchy. Beyond formatting of paragraphs, structured elements provide
information such as specific word meaning and importance.
Classroom in a Book exercises in structured mode
The XML exercises in this Classroom in a Book give you a chance to use the basic menu
to export a Structured FrameMaker 7.0 file to XML for use in these new, information-
heavy arenas. What’s more, you can bring them back into Structured FrameMaker 7.0,
revise them, and return them once again to their source.
Almost all documents have an implicit structure, logical units that appear in a consistent
order with a specific hierarchy (in school we were taught we had to have an introduction-
body-conclusion). FrameMaker allows you to work with a document’s structure by
organizing the contents–sections, headings, tables, and so on into logical units called
elements. Elements can be further described by their attributes.
Markup languages with the text marked with tags, like sales tags on items in a store,
provide information about the objects they’re attached to. Nesting tags give a hierarchal
structure. The FrameMaker 7.0 Structure View window displays the typical tree
branching structure, showing the hierarchy of elements of information flow.
WebWorks Publisher
In addition to using the Save As command to export FrameMaker 7.0 documents to
advanced structured formats, FrameMaker 7.0 includes Quadralay WebWorks Publisher
Standard Edition, which provides robust features for creating HTML, Dynamic HTML,
and XML output. You can use WebWorks Publisher Standard Edition to do the following:
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