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[docbook-apps] Cross-references through Framemaker?



Hi all,


I've been lurking quite a while and reading, but now find I need to post a question ....

My docs team writes manuals in XML using docbook, and we pour this through FrameMaker 7 to produce PDFs using Frame's template/EDD configuration. This set-up allowed us to migrate easily from an all-FrameMaker environment to one in which we can work with DocBook XML (much better for us) while being able to take advantage of Framemaker's strengths in producing good-looking PDFs that looked like the PDFs we produced from our earlier all-Framemaker set-up.

However, we've had some difficulty getting things to behave the way we'd like, and we're not always sure where we're running into limitations on what Frame can do with XML (of which, of course, there are a number!), where we're screwing up, or some combination of these problems :) One of our particular difficulties is trying to get cross-references working in our output PDFs.

What we we think we need is a tranformation that converts olinks (with a targetdocent specified) into cross-references that link to the target entity. We've played with this a bit, but without much success so far. It would be useful to know if there's a tried-and-tested way of doing this before we spend a lot of time barking up the wrong tree. Alternatively, it would be useful to know if xrefs to linkends outside the source file are the usual way to do cross-references. Do anyone have any experience with this sort of thing?

Cheers,
Carl


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