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>The question is, of course, moot for XML parsers, since they will have >to report a fatal error anyway if they find non-XML characters. It >would be interesting, though, to build an RTF parser with a SAX driver >and then hook it up to Don Park's SAXDOM. David, IMHO, power of XML lies in it being the hub (some would say bottleneck). I think it would be far more flexible to have converters that translates LaTex and RTF into XML which can then be processed by any SAX parser. Ideal processing of legacy documents in the XML realm involves four phases: 1. Conversion phase converts legacy documents into XML documents with emphasis on loss-less capturing of the original information. Little emphasis is placed on how information will be used. This step will be done typically by content owner. 2. Distillation phase extracts useful components of XML documents into one or more ready-for-processing XML documents with emphasis on providing the most useful and flexible form of information. This step is typically done by value added information vendors as well as content owners. 3. Distribution phase involves transmitting processed XML documents to the clients with the most emphasis placed on catering to the consumption phase. This step is done by the application servers. 4. Consumption phase involves client software converting XML documents into consumable formats such as HTML, RTF, LaTex, etc. The emphasis in the consumption phase is on user preference. This step is done by the client software. So, my vote is no. Regards, Don Park http://www.docuverse.com/personal/index.html xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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