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Originally Posted by Quoth
This is a stupid argument. You are confusing content creation with a production process.
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Well, no. As I wrote before you are confusing the author draft with the content creation. And - in digital books - you are creating text in XML.
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The whole point of XML is transfer of content between different systems. It might be used as the file format for some content creation programmes. But anyone actually editing XML with a text editor create or edit original content is mad.
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All the publishing houses that conserved source in XML had no problem to convert quickly their books to ePub, some years ago. All the publishing houses that only had "word processor manuscript" or obsolete DTP files as source, had to send tons of paper books in India to ocr scan.
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I know of no writers or editors that would do that.
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Maybe this is your problem.
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Please don't confuse how you do production with how people create and edit content. It's a bigger world than your work flow.
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As I wrote, in those days I'm working, as service, for a big publishing house in Italy for editing and correction of digital content. In docbook.
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