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Once you have those requirements, NewsML might be worth a look. Note
that it's intended for the newspaper industry rather than magazine articles.
Paul
DuCharme, Bob (LNG-CHO) wrote:
> 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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