Mary Ann Howell told about her project to learn how to use XML and FrameMaker. She spent almost a year of underemployment working on learning structured documents and creating EDDs. She worked out a method to "chunk" an XML document into separate sections that can be stored in a database. The completed XML document is created with an XSL stylesheet with includes, which pull different chunks together from the database. Download her materials from the STC site as well as from her website: www.hikaripub.com, where you can also download a little chunkr program to chunk an XML document up into bite-sized pieces for storing in a database.
Adobe provides you with a number of examples of structured documents that you can work through on your own.
The following is her outiline for turning an unstructured document into a structured FrameMaker document. For the details, please consult her handouts. She recommends keeping a notebook on hand to record how you solve problems as you go along.
