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Old 09-23-2007, 04:46 PM   #39
Steven Lyle Jordan
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Originally Posted by balok View Post
Here's another less than ideal solution, but it may be promising. Even if conversion tools aren't perfect, there could be a way to improve them by using an xml source format specifically designed for conversion. By analogy, we could refer to Java's "compile once, run anywhere" idea. The end user would take the source text, plug it into a conversion program, and have it come out exactly the way it should look on his device, no tweaking.
Balok, what you describe there is pretty much what ePub is, and how it should work with any reader. ePub is XHTML-based, and so it should be easy for any reader to run conversion instructions to assemble the ePub files into a book.
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