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Hi Eme,

How often do you need to generate or update these documents? Are there multiple versions of the "private" documents -- e.g., versions for different clients or something like that?

If you need to have an ongoing method of maintaining this kind of document and a fairly robust and bullet-proof method then it could be done by using FrameMaker and a publishing automation tool called Miramo see <http://www.miramo.com> (*)

Each time a "merged" public/private document was needed, you could generate a brand new document, while still retaining the integrity of the original Public and Private files. And you could generate the Public and Private documents as separate files, as well, whenever needed.

Another possible solution might be to make use of FrameMaker "variables" to maintain the Private file information, or to use conditional text to maintain the versions. However, with conditional text you couldn't maintain the private files as separate entities from the public, they would be in a single document.

Perhaps somebody else can suggest other alternatives -- the real question might be how robust a solution do you need to have, and do you need multiple people to use "the system".

Sheila
(oblig. disclaimer: AxialInfo is a Miramo reseller <http://www.axialinfo.com> )