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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@t...] > Sent: Friday, March 10, 2006 5:45 PM > To: xml-dev@l... > Subject: 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? > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://www.oasis-open.org/mlmanage/index.php> > > > >
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