XML Companion, The, Third Edition

Document analysis

Document analysis is often only applicable to publishing applications of XML, and not to the development of data exchange applications.

Existing rules

It is typically the case that a new XML-based publishing system replaces a system that adopted procedural markup principles, whether an old-fashioned typesetting system or a more modern DTP package. Existing books or documents to some degree conform to in-house style guides (whether formally defined, loosely described in notes, or existing simply in the heads of senior editorial staff), and naturally form the foundation of document analysis. The better the style guide, and the more rigorously it was previously applied, the easier it is to define a suitable model (and to convert ...