Let me explain the situation in case there are multiple solutions. I have a Framemaker setup that is inherited. We use FM to write docs that we filter with conditional attributes. Everything is fine there except for the "black box" nature of the thing... which leads up to now.
We are receiving documents that need to get integrated with our current system. This documentation lives on a website. We tried importing HTML, and now we are looking at importing it as XML. The closest we've gotten to being able to make this work is by using the Book structure that is within the Framemaker installation files (Program Files\Adobe\Framemaker9\Structure\xml\Book\app_xml). I should mention that I'm not exactly sure how the guy on the other end is creating the XML file. I'm just trying to get what he gives me working in FM.
So the latest thing is opening successfully, but has **completely different elements and style than our docs**. I've tried importing our EDD, but quite a few things break. I've been studying EDDs and Template files to try to troubleshoot this, but I have only gotten so far. I realized this morning that the XML file I'm being given is pointing to the Book.DTD... so I started looking at that.
I don't have the slightest of how to generate a DTD or get my docs to use a different one.
1. is there a way to automate a conversion from one EDD to another? otherwise I have to go through and change elements by hand. this will work but is incredbily time consuming and we are expecting a large volume of documents.
2. how does the DTD figure in with this? I opened it in a text editor and it seems to have the same stuff as the EDD in a different format.
Any ideas are appreciated.