RE: DOCBOOK-APPS: Has anyone tested Framemaker 7 with Docbook XML?

[Mike Stivers <mike dot stivers at openwave dot com>]

> -----Original Message-----
> From: bobs@caldera.com [mailto:bobs@caldera.com]
> Sent: Wednesday, May 01, 2002 1:06 PM
> To: Alexander Schatten; docbook-apps@lists.oasis-open.org
> Subject: Re: DOCBOOK-APPS: Has anyone tested Framemaker 7 with Docbook
> XML?
>
>
> On Wed, May 01, 2002 at 09:32:04PM +0200, Alexander Schatten wrote:
> > Framemaker 7 seems to be a very interesting upgrade in terms of XML
> > support. Has anyone tested already importing / using docbook XML with
> > Framemaker (and off course publishing using Framemaker)
>
> I don't believe FrameMaker 7 has been released.
> They told me mid May.
>
> I got FrameMaker+SGML 6 to work with DocBook 3.1 SGML.
> Officially FrameMaker+SGML 6 does not read XML
> files, but it can if done correctly (a proper declarations
> file).
>
> I tried Docbook 4.1.2 and 4.2 with FrameMaker+SGML 6, and it
> was very frustrating.  Generally the program crashed
> when trying to import the DTD to form the FrameMaker EDD.
> After mucking with it awhile and removing a bunch of
> attributes, I got 4.1.2 to load and create the EDD.  I never
> got 4.2 to load.  But then the program would crash when
> trying to read or write SGML files, even simple ones.
>
> Since I was still in my support time, I filed a report
> with Adobe and they investigated.  They came back and said
> that version 6 won't work with DocBook 4, but they expect
> the next version to.

Adobe states that FrameMaker 7.0 will support "DocBook 4.1, xDocBook 4.1.2,
and XHTML sample applications included for structured authoring"
http://www.adobe.com/products/framemaker/newfeatures.html