Structured Document Editors?

Posted by Dave Ewins
Jul 21, 2010 at 08:26 AM

Although Sense should import the BrainStorm Outline text file sucessfully, the resulting format isn’t structured being simply a flat document of paragraphs.

A more rewarding approach is via Sense To Webpage (A maintenance version is available as detailed later) - Sense To Webpage will hopefully convert your BrianStorm Html file to a Sense Document..

The procedure to try is as follows:

Publish your BrainStorm file as as a simple outline version (FullJavaScript model is switched off).

Run Sense To Webpage and open a New “Project by local file open” selecting the html file.

The Validation should initially fail with a “doctype” as an unexpected token.

Close this dialog and allow a XHTML Resolver Retry by selecting Yes.

If the Validation is now successful, Click any of the links in the Navigator browser view to open Sense and the content should hopefully now be structured into sections.

It’s important to Save As your file somewhere useful for later use.

Exit Sense and Exit Sense To Webpage not saving (cancelling) the project to tidy up.

I have placed on the support site http://support.silvaelm.com/maintenance/tools/ a Sense To Webpage development version (1.4.1) incorporating extra handling to convert HTML 4 (transitional) to XHTML.

Dave Ewins