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By barefootliam
Fri Dec 30th, 2005 at 11:55:17 PM EST
Internet


I've been involved in transcribing texts and in converting documents into different formats for more than twenty years. These days it's mostly conversion into HTML or XML. I've seen a lot of wasted effort, and also learnt a lot of lessons that are useful to share.

It might seem odd that I'd take the time to write about this, but as XML Activity Lead at W3C I'm concerned about what you might think of as the grass roots and origins as XML every bit as much as XML in the big companies. So what follows are some notes on converting textual documents into XML and HTML."

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