DocFrame structured authoring environment: FrameMaker and XML import/export with XSL transforms to online help

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Training and customization

The DocFrame solution (for FrameMaker 7.0 and 7.1)

NOTE

At this time, we do not plan to update DocFrame for FrameMaker 8 (or later).

Many FrameMaker users need structured authoring and a standards-based single-sourcing solution. Configuring FrameMaker for structured authoring has required too much time and too much money—until now.

The DocFrame environment offers a cost-effective solution. The structured authoring framework, created by Scriptorium Publishing, provides FrameMaker structure, Extensible Markup Language (XML) import and export, and transformation of the XML into HTML, HTML Help, and JavaHelp through Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) scripts. You can install the DocFrame files and begin creating structured content in minutes, not months.

It's easy to customize the printed output from DocFrame. If you know how to modify paragraph tags, character tags, master pages, and other template elements in unstructured FrameMaker, you can control the look and feel of DocFrame structured content.

The DocFrame package can serve as a foundation for further customization. The documentation explains how to modify and extend the structure to suit your requirements.

The package contains thorough documentation and Scriptorium's popular FrameMaker training workbooks.

The DocFrame solution provides everything you need to work in structured FrameMaker, convert to XML, and transform the XML files to HTML, HTML Help, and JavaHelp formats.

What's in Version 2.0

Here are some of the changes in DocFrame version 2.0:

JavaHelp output—From DocFrame XML output, you can now generate JavaHelp 2 helpsets along with HTML and HTML Help files.
Modular Extensible Stylesheet Language (XSL) files—Because the transformations to online formats share several functions, we've streamlined and modularized the transformation stylesheets.
Specification of file names in output—Use the new FileName attribute to control the names of HTML output files.
Compatibility with new features in FrameMaker 7.1—You can use DocFrame 2.0 with both FrameMaker 7.0 and 7.1. The DocFrame solution now supports the new conditional text handling in FrameMaker 7.1 files exported to XML, and it processes cross-book linking.
Expanded, in-depth documentation—The Developer's Guide (table of contents in PDF format, 82K) now has 45 percent more content, with special emphasis on XSL concepts. The Author's Guide (table of contents in PDF format, 45K) is almost 30 pages longer and offers thorough procedures on creating XML output from FrameMaker files and transforming that content into HTML, HTML Help, and JavaHelp.

For detailed information about the changes in version 2, read the first chapter (PDF, 80K) from the updated DocFrame Developer's Guide.

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For information about the German version of DocFrame, go to DocFrame.de.