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Hi Bruce...

I'm not sure I'm totally following your exact problem here, but keep in mind that the nesting of maps is intended to be transparent to the output. You can think of it as if you took the contents of the submap and pasted it in over the topicref in the main map that references that submap. It won't add any hierarchy to the resulting FM book. You need to use actual topics to create the hierarchy. (You may already know all of that and that may not be the problem you're running into.)

The FM8 DITA map to book process does work reasonably well, but it does have some limitations and problems. Any structural problems that you run into can probably be fixed by tweaking the import XSLT and the Book EDD.

DITA-FMx has fixed many of the problems, and if you're not ready (or able) to spend the extra money (probably far less than the time you'll spend trying to fix things though :) .. you could download the DITA-FMx trial and compare the XSLT and Book EDD with those in FM8 and see if you can borrow the bits to make it work the way you want.

If you do need to make some tweaks to the structure applications, be sure to clone the default apps to make your own, so you can always roll back to the working versions *when* you break something (we all do).

Cheers,

...scott

Scott Prentice
Leximation, Inc.
www.leximation.com