Mif Statements For Structured Documents And Books; Structural Element Definitions - Adobe FRAMEMAKER 6.0 Manual

MIF Statements for Structured Documents
and Books
This chapter describes the MIF statements that define structured documents created with
FrameMaker+SGML. For more information about creating and editing structured documents, see the
FrameMaker+SGML User Guide.

Structural element definitions

A structured document created in FrameMaker+SGML is divided into logical units called structural
elements. Elements have tags (or names) that indicate their role in the document. For example, a document
might contain Section, Para, List, and Item elements. Each element has a definition that specifies its valid
contents (such as text and graphics). A structured template specifies a document's elements, and the
correct order of elements and text in the document.
There are two basic groups of FrameMaker+SGML elements:
Containers, tables and footnotes, which can hold text and other elements.
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Object elements, such as graphic frames, equations, markers, system variables, and cross-references. An
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object element holds one of its specified type of object and nothing more.
Tables belong to both groups of elements. Although they can contain other elements (table parts such as
rows and cells), tables are also object elements.
In a MIF file, an element definition is defined by an ElementDef statement. Element definitions are stored
in the Element Catalog, which is defined by the ElementDefCatalog statement. Within a text flow, elements
are indicated by ElementBegin and ElementEnd statements.
When FrameMaker products read a MIF file that does not support structure, they strip MIF statements for
structure, such as ElementBegin, ElementEnd, and ElementDefCatalog statements.
ElementDefCatalog statement
The ElementDefCatalog statement defines the contents of the Element Catalog. A document or book file
can have only one ElementDefCatalog statement which must appear at the top level in the order given in
"MIF file layout" on page 18.
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