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airlik · 03-12-2007, 11:42 AM

PML is sort-of XML based. It then gets compiled into a binary format which you can't directly edit (unless you're into that kind of thing). PDBSHRED might be the program that just reverts it back to PML (sorry, I did this a few months ago now so it's not quite as fresh in my mind), which you can then use Word macros to get to something more readable. I wrote a basic one that handled the formatting tags that I wanted to handle based on the PML spec I found somewhere. When you've handled the ones that are important to you (like say italics and font stuff), you can just batch replace <*> with nothing and be done with it.

03-12-2007, 11:42 AM	#8
airlik Connoisseur Posts: 76 Karma: 15 Join Date: Oct 2006 Device: Sony Reader	PML is sort-of XML based. It then gets compiled into a binary format which you can't directly edit (unless you're into that kind of thing). PDBSHRED might be the program that just reverts it back to PML (sorry, I did this a few months ago now so it's not quite as fresh in my mind), which you can then use Word macros to get to something more readable. I wrote a basic one that handled the formatting tags that I wanted to handle based on the PML spec I found somewhere. When you've handled the ones that are important to you (like say italics and font stuff), you can just batch replace <*> with nothing and be done with it.