Re: [xml-dev] "What use are plugins->XML" or "PDF 2 XML"

["Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@allette.com.au>]

From: "Jimmy Cerra" <jc2astro@hotmail.com>


> > Acrobat 5 has a plugin called XMLExtract or somethign (free from Adobe I
> > think) which attempts to extract XML.
> 
> What use are plug-ins that translate (DOC, PDF, etc) to XML???  I don't
> think it would be easy, as the main advantage of using XML is that you get
> to define the element names to suit the context.

Presumably someone has information "archived" in PDF, and they need to get it.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe