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Hello Mr. Van Dyke,

you might try the following:
Rather than having the topics in XML, combining them into a map and turning the map into FM, you could have a book with chapters (=structured .fm-files) and insert the XML topics by conref

This is analogue to using text insets in non-structured files.
The advantage of this is having the topics as .xml (=validation, granularity, reuse) and an FM book (=generated lists a.s.o) at the same time.

If you need to be on the pure xml path, you might try out the "DITA-Services" of SYSTEC. This is a plugin pack that
* adds static or dynamic files to a book according to a configuration file
* sets variable values, text condition visibility status and PDF metadata information according to a configuration file
* localizes formats, reference pages a.s.o semi-automatically.

This way you could go from xml + map>FM-Book without Title, TOC a.s.o>FM-Book with Title, TOC and all other bells and whistles >PDF.

Feel free to inquire at info@systec-gmbh.com

With kind regards,
Franz.

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