Glad to see your article on framemaker to dita conversion. I just got an assignment and started to work on exact same stuff. With Framemaker 9, I was able to easily create a new DITA doc, but it doesn’t have an option to convert an existing .fm unstructured to DITA. If you have, can you please share some samples related to unstructured to dita migration.

Eagerly awaiting for some help and I would really appreciate it.

Thanks a ton,
-Shail

Let’s see, I wrote this in mid-2007. I never did complete the entire process. I don’t think Stilo was available at the time. I am searching for the files I had for that particular project, but not finding them immediately. Sorry about that. If I find them I’ll email you.

You’re pointing out to me that my blog posts don’t have date stamps on them! I need to change that.

You may want to proceed directly to FrameMaker 9. It has improved DITA support and might make your life easier for a single document.

Hope this helps!

Thank you for diligently sharing your experiences and expertise with the technical communications community!

I agree with Sasi that your blog is extensively documented and easy to search and follow.

Regarding this article, do you have an example of a conversion table and the file formatting it needs to carry for FrameMaker 8 unstructured conversion to structured only? I am attempting to convert a brief document over, yet retain the master and reference templates. Do I need to convert completely to XML and DITA when my organization is not yet there?

Best Regards,
E. Wang

http://www.tinyurl.com/shesadool

I’ve just browsed through the web site. It’s really worth a visit. The site seems to be documentionally (ding!) exhaustive. It’s pretty complete and advanced as well. Your effort will certainly expand the horizons for technical writing / documentation in days to come.

You’ll be remembered….

Keep going….

Cheers

Sasi