Hi John, Excuse me, but do you really know what know what XML is? I can only assume you do not. I do agree that XML can be used as basis for a master format. Am 25.02.2011 um 03:31 schrieb John Redmond:
I am reassured to discover that I am not the only one turned off by the tedious and reiterative banter of the Usual Suspects. Let me state my views:
1. XML should be at the centre of any text management (doh). XML is good for storage in a structured form. But for text management? But, then again what do you mean by text management?
2. There should be one or more markup schemes for simple embellishment of text to trivialise conversion of existing text to XML. One of these MAY be zml, or my dottedfile format--or any other system that others prefer. The only requirement should be the easy conversion to good XML. Easy! Express your markup scheme in terms of XML! XML is not a particular mark scheme. You write the "scheme" in XML. Though term scheme is used differently in XML.
3. Given that we share a primary interest in books (text), it makes sense that the XML should conform to the XHTML doctype.
WHY? For example epub does require any adherence to the XHTML, Just to XML version 1.0 !!!
4. From that point on, (X)HTML and HTML/ePub are trivial to generate, while LaTeX and PDF come from XSLT--which is surprisingly easy.
For that matter using any other markup an XSLT can be used to get to XHMTL. regards Keith.