Good morning,
I've successfully gotten my FrameMaker XML application running and exporting millions and millions of lines of data. I was SO excited to be able to do this completely on my own (and with several of you!)
But, we transferred the data to our vendor who is creating a search engine for us and they ran across a problem that they (as non-FrameMaker users) and I (not really an "XML" person) can't figure out. I will paste in below what they said is happening, vs. what should be happening and see if yall can help? I hope this is an easy one since we are getting to a serious deadline. Their email to me:
The problem is that FrameMaker is assigning graphic entity names to the graphics on export, but it is not putting out the associated entities that complete the map.
Here is an example:
<graphic>
<sheet>
<graphicobject entity="graphicobject1" impsize="6.760in 7.063in" impby="ref" sideways="0" impang="0.000" xoffset="0.188in" yoffset="0.076in" position="below" align="aleft" cropped="0" float="0" width="7.135in" height="7.216in" angle="0.000" nsoffset="0.000in"/>
<title>Engine Change Check List (Page 1 of 2)</title>
</sheet>
</graphic>
<graphic>
<sheet>
<graphicobject entity="graphicobject2" impsize="6.756in 7.012in" impby="ref" sideways="0" impang="0.000" xoffset="0.247in" yoffset="0.089in" position="below" align="aleft" cropped="0" float="0" width="7.250in" height="7.191in" angle="0.000" nsoffset="0.000in"/>
<title>Engine Change Check List (Page 2 of 2)</title>
</sheet>
</graphic>
Note that the red bold stuff is the Frame assigned logical name for the graphic. The actual entities are usually output with the document, and the entities describe the format and location of the graphics. An example mught be similar to:
<entity graphicobject1 “c:\myfolder\somewhere\mygraphic.tif”>
<entity graphicobject2 “c:\myfolder\somewhere\mygraphic.tif”>
Without the entities we have no idea what the actual graphic file is being referred to in the xml.
Anyone know what is causing this? Maybe something I need to declare in the application or read/write rules??
Thank you as always,
Lyncca