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Thank you all for your help and suggestions. The IXgen tool does a good job of exposing marker text, but ultimately didn't fit my needs for this issue -- there would be almost the same amount of manual post-processing required as doing it by hand. Which is what I'm doing.

In case anyone else has to go down this path, here's the gist of it:

1. generate a list of markers, w/ hyperlinks
2. create a unique Frame paragraph style, e.g., RoboTopic
   2.1 create a new element, e.g., eRoboTopic
3. create a condition tag. e.g. Robo (hide for print, pdf, and port)
4. Find, in book, Marker of Type: x or click link from your LOM
5. Insert Element
6. Copy existing marker to element.
7. Copy out marker text, and past w/in element.
8. Apply paragraph and condition tags.
9. Copy element containing marker text and tags.
10. Find next marker. Paste previous element near it.
11. Open new marker and change text in element to reflect text in new marker.
12. Repeat ad nauseam. At least your element, paragraph formatting and condition can be carried forward. So in the end, what you're doing is opening each marker and pasting the text into the formatted element.
13. When you're port the book to RoboHelp, you'll have a chance to identify the marker WebWorks used in Frame to demarcate topics. Specify it.
14. You will also need to map the Robo paragraph style (created for Frame) to a unique style that exists in the .css you are using for the Robo project, and tell Robo to use that style as the break for new topics. Robo creates a new topic each time it encounters the specified style.
15. complete the port.

These notes are a bit rough -- I'll try to come back and refine it at another time.

Refinements, or even a wholly better way, are welcome.

take care,
David