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For FrameMaker 8 DITA.

I gen'ed apparently "clean" binaries from DITA XML -- now how do I gen "clean" DITA XML from the binaries?

BACKGROUND
I created a bunch of DITA topic files as .xml, then assembled them in a DITA map file.

Next, I used Build FM DITABook from DITA map file to export those XML files as a binary (or if you prefer, "classic") FrameMaker book containing a list of ".xml.fm" binary (a.k.a. "classic chapter") files.

I then proceeded to edit those binary files, closely conforming to DITA tag structure to create a FrameMaker book and constituent binary topic files that validated and gen'ed without error.

Finally, I used Save As to save those .fm chapter files as XML. (Actually, FM8 for some reason wants to export them as ".xml.xml" files...)

THE PROBLEM

* When I save the .fm files as XML, FrameMaker reports an error the essence of which is "Root element different from DOCTYPE".

* FrameMaker also reports the same error if I open a given .xml file then Save the file back into itself.

* If I then re-open the file that contained the error, FrameMaker does not report an error. That is to say that it seems that Open-ing and Save-ing the XML file "cleans" the error out of the file.


So, is there any way to go directly to "clean" XML without performing the intermediate Open/Save operation?

Cheers & thanks,
Riley