MIF To XML?

[Hermund ?rdalen]

Hi!

We're using FrameMaker for book production. Now we need to export the contents to XML for further processing and conversions to other formats. We tried the XML export function in FrameMaker but there was a problem with the anchored frames. They were converted into images. This is no good since we often use the anchored frames to contain formatted text with markers, numering etc.

Therefore we're wondering if there's some way to convert MIF into XML. That way we can save the FrameMaker documents as MIF, convert the MIF to XML and then start processing without losing the formatting in the anchored frames.

Any help is appreciated.

Thanks!

 

[Axial (archive)]

In a recent posting to the FrameMaker section of the Adobe User-to-User forum, Roel van der Steen said he had written a perl module to parse MIF. Unfortunately he did not provide any contact info in his post, but perhaps he will reply to the thread again. Check it at:

[RFC] Proposal for a Perl module that parses MIF files (3/5/04) http://www.adobeforums.com/cgi-bin/[email protected]/0

You might be able to parse the MIF, extract the content of the anchored frames and export them as XML in a separate step, then re-merge the anchored-frame-XML with the original doc XML.

Sheila

Therefore we're wondering if there's some way to convert MIF into XML. That way we can save the FrameMaker documents as MIF, convert the MIF to XML and then start processing without losing the formatting in the anchored frames.

Sheila Carlisle
Axial InfoSolutions Inc.
Automated Publishing Solutions / XML Publishing Solutions http://www.axialinfo.com http://www.miramo.com

 

[Jeroen Dekker]

If you export the anchored frames / graphics to EPS vector format when outputting to XML, and they include the text overlays etc., then you could use our ps2vector software to batch convert them to XML-standard SVG - retaining all graphics, images and text strings in WYSIWYG layout.

Not sure if that's what you mean. If interested, please send me a couple of sample EPS files for testing. More info about our (commercial) products is at the URL below.

Jeroen Dekker

 

[Jeroen Dekker]

Hi Sheila (how have you been?), Hermund,

I happen to know Mr. Van der Steen. Should either of you really want to get in touch with him about his MIF parser, I could probably help you do so. In that case please contact me directly.

Jeroen Dekker