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C r e a t i n g a F r a m e M a k e r t e m p l a t e
Follow these guidelines for using element attribute value building blocks:
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Enter the name of the attribute whose value you want to display between brackets. If a
list of possible values is not defined for the attribute used in a <$highchoice> or
<$lowchoice> building block, the building block will be ignored.
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You can specify elements to consider when searching for an attribute value to include in
the running header or footer. To do so, place a colon after the attribute name, followed
by one or more element tags separated by commas. For example, a variable with the
following definition would display the highest value of the Security attribute of the first-
level and second-level Section elements.
<$highchoice[Security:Section(Level1), Section(Level2)]>
Special text flows to format generated lists and indexes
Many formatting aspects of a list or index are controlled by a special text flow on a reference
page in the generated file. The name of the reference page matches the default filename
suffix, such as TOC for a table of contents or IX for a standard index. These reference
pages contain building blocks to specify formatting of the entries in the generated files.
The following building blocks apply only to structured documents in FrameMaker. If you use
an element-based building block to refer to an unstructured paragraph, the information won't
appear in the generated list. If you use a paragraph-based building block to refer to an
element, the information included in the generated list will come from the paragraph that
contains the beginning of the element.
Building block
<$elemtextonly>
<$elemtext>
<$elemtag>
For general information about how FrameMaker generates and formats lists and indexes,
see the FrameMaker user's manual.
HTML mapping for export
The FrameMaker User Guide includes instructions for converting a FrameMaker document
to HTML. Converting FrameMaker documents to HTML uses nearly the same process, but
there are some differences which take advantage of the structure in your documents.
Creating a Structure Application
What it displays
Displays the text of the first paragraph of the element, excluding any
autonumber, and the element's prefix and suffix, if any. Note that
prefix and suffix are only excluded for the specific element; if the
paragraph text is in a child element that has a prefix or suffix, the
prefix or suffix will be included.
Displays the text of the first paragraph of the element, excluding any
autonumber, but including the element's prefix and suffix, if any.
Displays the element tag
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