20.3. Implementing Document Processing

Without a good system to make use of the resulting schemas, a document analysis is of little value. Following are some advantages (described more detail in Section 20.1) that can accrue with XML-based authoring, editing, and publishing:

  • Authors gain control over correct display of content without being style specialists (or even having to know the styles to be used).

  • Editors can ensure that display conventions are followed.

  • Display conventions can be changed without requiring any “fixing” of primary-source documents.

  • Content-based markup allows the display conventions to be adapted to new media much more easily.

  • Documents can more easily be “data-mined” and excerpted for use in other documents.

  • Standard parts ...

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