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Originally Posted by Quoth
No, NO-ONE sensibly uses XHTML or XML as a source format to write books. They are an intermediate format for formatting. You MIGHT create very short documents in them.
And no publishing house uses XML as source format for books. They might have XML in the workflow. Fiction is via wordprocessor -> PDF proof.
Non-fiction is potentially more complicated if formulas etc involved.
We obviously have a completely different view of content creation and editing work flows.
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Perhaps you are considering your way to work as the only one. I published hundred of books using XML as source format and today - for example - I'm working on XML for one of bigger publishing house in Italy. "Source" obviously is not the author manuscript, but the document core a publishing house uses to create the destination formats. XML is one of the best core for workflow to conserve and produce different product, as web-app, ePub, PDF and more.
And no, you can work on large project directly in XML, if you are able to do this. My last poetry ebook was coded directly in XML and javascript. Don't look at your garden as if it were the world. The world is bigger.
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