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Scott:

Thanks.

What I did do was borrow the index.html and toc.html files gen'ed by the DITA-OT demo.

I then used some scripts to transform a copy of my .ditamap file (which hierarchically listed all my topic files) into HTML unordered lists and list items (ULs and LIs) used in the Eclipse Help system's TOC file.

So, I can post-process a copy of my ditamap file into a crude approximation of an Eclipse Help TOC, then re-use the Eclipse Help index.html to launch it in a frame.

Overall, I think you're correct -- FrameMaker in its native state knows only how to turn DITA back into .fm binaries for purposes of generating a somewhat clumsy looking PDF of the assembled topics...

(Wouldn't it be funny, he said, if the FM8 DITA plugin could generate the DITAMAP file as a single HTML approximation of itself rather than interpret it as a list of topic files? Then one could two-pass the Eclipse Help system as HTML-ized topic files and a TOC-ized DITAMAP.

Anticipating the next question, no -- saving the DITAMAP as HTML doesn't get you any closer than does post-processing the DITAMAP XML file...)

Cheers & thanks 'gain,
Riley
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