RE: [xml-dev] Q on XML and article publishing...

["DuCharme, Bob \(LNG-CHO\)" <bob.ducharme@lexisnexis.com>]

I would look at your current (and possible future) desired end products
to determine your requirements and work from there. Can you get what you
need out of XHTML? 

If not, and you want to convert it to XML with real section container
elements as you show in 2) below, the grouping capabilities of XSLT 2
will be a big help. 

The DocBook DTD(/Schema) can do what your sample XML below demonstrates
well, and there are plenty of free tools available such as XSLT
stylesheets to convert it to XHTML or PDF (via XSL-FO) if you need those
formats. And, many XML editors have built-in support for it, which would
help with your authoring issue. 

Good luck,

Bob

-----Original Message-----
From: Walter Torres [mailto:xmlwalter@torres.ws] 
Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 5:45 PM
To: xml-dev@lists.xml.org
Subject: [xml-dev] Q on XML and article publishing...

I image thi shas been covered a thousand times on this list over the
years, but the search feature in the archives is broke, so I'm going to
have to ask this again... sorry.

I have lots (4k+) magazine articles with embedded HTML stored in a
dabase right now.

The HTML is not uniform is quality.

I'm using TIDY to "clean it up" so I have a uniform xHTML style.

These articels also have CSS tags embedded in them, I want to pull them
out.

These articles are used across our several websites. All have the same
look.

1) do I leave these in xHMTL format (wit or without CSS tags)?

2) do I "reduce" this to "pure" xml...

  <article>
     <author id="1234>
        <name>Walter</name>
        ...
     </author>
     [other publishing info]
     <content>
        <para>
          lots of text here
        </para>
        <sub-head>
          sub-head here
        </sub-head>
        <para>
          lots of text here
        </para>
     </content>
  </article>

or something like this

I'd like to use some "publishing standard" so other organizations can
gain access to our articles without much fuss.

Anyone have any ideas/pointers/URLs/etc they can share?

Thanks

Watler

PS: Also, how would new articles be created? The writers are not XML
codeers, nor should they be? How do you folks solve this?

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