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Re: automating Frame doc updates via external code ? (was: in search for better tools)
Subject:Re: automating Frame doc updates via external code ? (was: in search for better tools) From:"Monique Semp" <monique -dot- semp -at- earthlink -dot- net> To:"Robert Lauriston" <robert -at- lauriston -dot- com>, techwr-l -at- lists -dot- techwr-l -dot- com Date:Tue, 8 Dec 2009 14:16:32 -0800
Fabulous! Thanks for the link. I'll have to read it in detail soon, and
try things out. Fortunately I don't have any non-source-code API docs I'm
maintaining at the moment, but there is potential with one of my current
clients, so I'll look into it.
I sure appreciate you sharing the knowledge :-),
-Monique
<snip>
>
> In Frame, the process was the usual for importing variables. The
> programmers wrote a script that exported the API elements in .mif
> format. These days, I suppose you'd probably use XML instead, so you
> wouldn't have to do the work over if you switched from Frame.
>
>http://www.adobe.com/devnet/framemaker/pdfs/fm_databasepub.pdf
>
> You could definitely use that in combination with javadoc or Doxygen
> or whatever to keep a FrameMaker book in sync.
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