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Subject:Re: Moving from IBM to Mac From:eric -dot- dunn -at- ca -dot- transport -dot- bombardier -dot- com To:"TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com> Date:Mon, 15 Nov 2004 13:25:24 -0500
David Knopf wrote on 11/15/2004 12:25:14 PM:
> If you are using
> FrameMaker to create XML as part of an XML publishing
> workflow, however,
> you gain nothing in particular from the .fm format.
Not so. Unless round-trip use of XML source is absolutely necessary,
making XML your native format has a number of limitations and
complications.
There are a number of advantages to keeping all editing and source files
in FM binary format and only saving to XML when required by the workflow.
Two great advantages are only needing one machine set up with the correct
read/write rules and the "simplicity" of only having to create write rules
and one-way (FM to XML) scripts or FDK plugins.
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