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Originally Posted by rlauzon
You seem to be confused about what XML is.
Basically, XML is a language that describes data. Pretty much any data.
I suggest "Learning XML" by Erik T. Ray (O'Reilly). Many people at work have used this book to get a good feel of what XML is and what it can do.
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I parse and create XML everyday so no, I'm not confused at all. And you're really confused about how Feedbooks work: you can create custom PDF files, which means that there's no need for us to change anything on the website if we need to support more devices that are PDF enabled. We can add templates, which means that they're the files once generated are stored in cache and there's no need for the user to customize anything. But as long as the device is PDF enabled, we can generate the right book for it.
Actually Feedbooks work exactly like what yvanleterrible describded:
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We should have the base books cleaned prepared and stored in HTML. When you click on a book choice a dialog box asks you what format you need and a universal translator coughs it up for your download.
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We're still in beta test, that's why there's only PDF supported, and we're not using HTML because HTML is pure presentation. We're using a database which would be 100% similar to using XML.
In my previous post I was just pointing to the fact that LRF, Mobipocket etc... use XML purely for presentation, not semantic information.