Populating Framemaker structured templates

Presently utilizing Framemaker+SGML 7.2 environment, along with version 7.1 of the FDK. Our organization has a group of users that utilize templates to input structured information to generate validated SGML, specific to DTDs, that is then used as input to generate a number of other formats XML, HTML, KML.
My question is, presently all the information is manually keystroked into the templated SGML elements. There are external resources that I have available that could enable prepopulation of the templates with information, and eliminate much of the manual input--very labor intensive. This could speed up input and accuracy. These sources include:
Unstructured Microsoft word documents.
Sybase database.
Web service requests that could provide me an XML instance.
XML fragments.
Are there any FDK resources available that would enable me to utilize this external information so that I can assist our users with prepopulating our templates? There is currently a stigma attached with Framemaker in our production environment. The markup of the information is the bottleneck. If not, would upgrading to version 9.0 provide any capability to resolve this issue?
If there are any of these resources available, can you direct me to examples or provide code fragment examples. I am not a native C programmer.

Pony Boy,
I think I'm generally in agreement with Michael. You can probably find a way to programmatically hook into these other applications; however, it might be best to convert them to XML first, then import to FM. The reason is that FM can read XML natively. With that, you can either:
- Use stylesheets as Michael suggests to format the content for publication, or
- Use the FDK (or FrameScript) to pick out pieces of the XML content and stick it into another document (which sounds a lot like what you want)
I do the latter all the time and can attest that it is very straightforward, once you have some basic FDK skills. The XML markup makes for a very logical roadmap through the content that you can parse with code.
So in summary, just guessing based on your description, I think I'd tackle this as follows:
- Settle on a common XML structure and get the third-party apps to output it. For example, get Word to generate some XML for you, which may not be simple but would probably be easier than trying to parse Word files in FM.
- Build a structure app to import the XML to FM. In actuality, you may not need any structure app at all if you are importing it solely for the purpose of populating other docs (with the FDK). This is something else I take advantage of frequently... the ability to import raw XML and transfer the content to another template. It doesn't look like anything when it comes in, but as soon as the content is inserted into a working template with an operational EDD, it suddenly becomes formated according to the respective EDD rules.
- Build an FDK client to do the transfer. The nature of this client would depend on the nature of content to transfer and the type of markup you are using. There may be third-party tools that can assist you with this effort.
I'd be interested to hear your thoughts about that. I can post sample code that deals with the transfer of content from one FM file to another. I woiuldn't be able to comment further on getting third-party app data into XML, though.
Russ

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