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book level workflow and roundtripping

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From: Shelley_Hoose
Date: Thu, 02 Oct 2008 20:20
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HI folks,

I am nonplussed by Frame's apparent behavior when roundtripping.

Given a generic rule like this:
put element "chapter" in file "chap.fm";

The chapters increment each time you re-import XML to Frame so that
the first time you might have chap1, chap2 and chap3, but the next
time, you'll have chap4, chap5, and chap6 and so on. This occurs even
when you click "yes" to overwrite the existing files.

This plays havoc not only with identifying which chapter you are in or
are looking for, but also with any attempt to save documents under any
version control system, since their names are always changing.

I find this astonishing, so I feel sure I am missing some obvious
book-level workflow. Our goal is to save a book as XML under version
control, then have our writers check out the entire book, or documents
as needed, open them in Frame, edit as necessary, save back to XML,
and check back into version control.

This must be a common process for writers working in structured
documents. Am I missing something?

Thanks so much for any ideas,
Shelley
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