Combining Two Conditional Text Documents

Previously, I examined how to work with condition tags where Reviewers A and B input their comments into one document. In the real world, this might not always be the case. For instance, you might have sent each reviewer a separate document to input their comments. If that’s the case, you will find yourself with two separate document files, each one containing one reviewer’s comments.

Getting both reviewers’ comments into the same document is another FrameMaker brain teaser. Here’s one way to solve it.

Say that you have two FrameMaker documents. The first document (doc1.fm) contains content and Reviewer A’s comments tagged with condition tag A. The second document (doc2.fm) contains the same content as ...

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