XML Text Frame?

how to create a text frame object importing/converting xml (application)?
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Hello,
when doing structured work in FM you can do this either by using xml files or fm files (with structure in them).
As soon as you use .fm-files rather than xml files, you can do the following:
1. insert an element that inserts an image (=which is declared in the EDD)
2. after having inserted the image, delete it but leave the empty frame.
3. into this frame, put a text frame and into this text frame, import whatever you like.
Warning:
This is only possible with .fm files. With .xml-files it is not possible. So if you plan to move your .fm-files to .xml files you will get errors.
Also, as far as I can see, there is no validation inside such frames. This can be good (because you can insert unstructured text) or bad (as there is no validation).
Generally speaking, I know of no standard xml-dialect which hase something as a "frame"-Element. It is true that you can have FM interpret elements as Frames, but this is an FM specific thing.
So, if you want to do this, this also means that you have to build your own dialect or extend an existing one, which means that you bind yourself to non-standard.
You might try to think about why you want to do this in the first place. If you´d like to do it, because you want to include XML or MIF with pictures and their descriptions ("1: screw; 2: switch"...), you could do an AI or EPS that contains the graphics and the text, or you could import the graphics normally and put the descriptions underneath in a normal table.
Hope this helps,
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