Programmatically convert DITA to FrameMaker

Question

Is there a toolkit available (paid or otherwise) to help with programmatically converting a DITA document to a FrameMaker one?

I'm attempting to make an application that converts to multiple formats from DITA. I know I can use the DITA Open Toolkit for most of my needs, but I need to be able to create a native FrameMaker document as well.

Programing language doesn't matter, altho I prefer Java as my application will be web based.

Answer 1

Arbortext import-export is industrial strength and very flexible. You could also try MIFtoGo. Conversion is tricky because source documents are rarely consistent. Conversion without cleanup before and after is next to impossible.

Answer 2

DITA-FMx is what you need:

http://leximation.com/dita-fmx/

Using DITA-FMx, you generate a FrameMaker book from your ditamap (and then save the FM book as PDF).

There is a movie on YouTube that shows you how the process goes. Just search for "PDF Publishing with DITA-FMx 1.1" (Stack Overflow does not allow me to post a second URL here yet)

If you like to see an example, just send me a small sample of a ditamap and I'll generate a FrameMaker book for you.