How do you structure a .book with an EDD?

Question

Hi all,
I am learning how to convert legacy, unstructured FM documents into structured FM documents and need some help. So, I created a conversion table from my unstructured documents, created the EDD, applied the EDD to the unstructured document to create a structured document and now need to tweak the EDD.
My question is, what is the correct way to layout the EDD rules for a book using multiple document styles? For example: My book contains a title page, TOC, one or more chapters, a glossary of terms, and one or more appendixes (or is that a appendicies?.)
I am thinking the element rule would look something like this:
Element (Container): BOOK
Valid as the highest-level element.
General rule: TitlePage, TOC, Chapter+, Index, Appendix+
Followed of course by other elements required for the structure. However, I did see an EDD that I am sure was outlined like this (though I can't recall where:)
Element: TitlePage
Valid as the highest-level element.
General rule: Blah blah blah
Element: TOC
Valid as the highest-level element.
General rule: Blah blah blah
Element: Chapter
Valid as the highest-level element.
General rule: Blah blah blah
Element: Index
Valid as the highest-level element.
General rule: Blah blah blah
Element: Appendix
Valid as the highest-level element.
General rule: Blah blah blah
If the second structure is correct, how do you define the Book element? On the Adobe forum, I was told one EDD should be created for all book elements, which makes sense to me.
Okay people, fire away. Remember I am a neophyte in structured FM.
Thanks,
Adam

Answer 1

Thanks Van, that does clear it up for me... a little. My confusion now is, if I set all the book sections as valid at the highest level, then how does the book get structured as the starting point for the sections contained within it? I have tried to find a sample EDD detailing exactly this, but to no avail - my search brought up courses where this is covered, but not the actual EDD structure.
When I try to structure the book with the EDD, the book comes up red with its children elements looking just fine. Ahh! You have to love that learning curve.
Regards,
Date: Thu, 24 Sep 2009 06:43:41 -0600
From: [email protected]
To: [email protected]
Subject: How do you structure a .book with an EDD?
Adam,
Following up on some of Russ's sage advice, you asked:
If the second structure is correct, how
do you define the Book element? On the Adobe forum, I was told one EDD
should be created for all book elements, which makes sense to me.
As Russ said, your BOOK element looks fine. Not sure how far you have gotten, but when you open a document file that is in the book, its root element will be Chapter, TitlePage, Appendix, etc. That is why you have to declare each of these as being valid at the highest level. When you click in the book file window and look at the structure view, you will see that the BOOK element is the root element, and its content will be TitlePage, TOC, Chapter, Chapter,...etc. The book and all of its component files have the same EDD. The definitions for the BOOK element, as well as the TitlePage, TOC, Chapter, etc elements are all contained in the same EDD. I hope this helps to answer your question.
Van
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