Exporting a FM template to PTC Styler, or ....

Hi all -- experienced FrameMaker user but XML/XSLT newbie here ...
We want to use PTC Styler to generate a style sheet that looks like our existing FrameMaker template. Ideally we could just export the template directly to Styler and then touch it up in Styler, but if that isn't possible, we'd be happy just being able to document the template from Frame. That is, save all of the paragraph and character tag values to a readable file. Any suggestions?
Thanks,
Margaret

Margaret,
I know about Style, but you can save a blank Frame template file in the MIF format, which is a text format that is a complete description of the Frame file. You can do this with any Frame file, but such a MIF file will contain all the content of the file, which makes it larger. A MIF file of the template file is human readable, that is, it is not difficult figuring out what the various values mean.
Note that a MIF file may look like an XML file (angle brackets) but it is not.
Hope this helps,
Van

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Then why the warning message 'not yet implemented' ? It so makes me think that in the next update there I will find it !
And it so makes my appetite for it grow ! :)
I am very sad to hear such a point of view especially as an official attitude.
I mean this reason, that there is only one implementation and the other compiler implementers did not implement it, so Sun will also not implement it, is quite ... hard to expect.
After all, all new C++ features were also not implemented by compiler implementers when they appeared, until they implemented them ...
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What the "definitions-separate" default compilation model does is effectively including the template definition in every .cc file, just like I would have included it in .hh file in the first place. This is what export is to prevent: it does not include nor need the template definition until some point before linking, at which all translation units have been translated (compiled) and the template definition can be found.
It is true that in a way template instantiations use symbols from both the definition point, and the instantiation point, but this is intentional and the programmers should all well know about it. The C++ language also has quite some others such hidden effects after all ...
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I just hope for more people to see how export is, and not rejecting it ...
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Edited by: Madden on Jan 21, 2010 7:31 PM

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