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From: "Andrew Welch" <andrew.j.welch@xxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Sunday, April 13, 2008 12:56 AM
To: <xsl-list@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Subject: Re:  XSLT Programmer's Reference 4th edition

On 10/04/2008, Michael Kay <mike@xxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:

> The answer from the publisher is yes (from wiley.com), there
 > will be a PDF available, but it may take 6-8 weeks after the
 > printed edition is available.

 >So the next question is: will the PDF be fully hyperlinked with
 links from the TOC to chapters/sections/tables/figures, hyperlinked
 to external web sites, and hyperlinked from the index to items on
 the page?

Almost certainly not, unfortunately. Wiley's production processes have yet
to enter the XML age.

I worked for a large publisher a while back and one jobs I did was to
transform XML that was generated by (apparently) reverse engineering
whatever file they send to the printers.

The XML was pretty basic but I was able to upconvert a lot of it into
useful hyperlinks.  One problem I remember was where words were broken
across a line and a hyphen was added, for example on the printed page
you would have:

blah blah blah fundam-
ental.

In the XML this would just be "fundam-ental"...

Anyway, perhaps this sort of XML would be available from Wiley?

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Andrew Welch
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