possibility of an RTF, LaTex XML conversion process

David Megginson (ak117@freenet.carleton.ca)
Tue, 14 Apr 1998 08:20:49 -0400

Baden Hughes writes:

> Both Don Park and David Megginson mentioned this in the last few
> posts: conversion mechanisms from RTF and LaTex to XML. Anyone know
> of any work on either of these ? I'd be very interested to hear
> about it. If not, is there any other interest in these conversions
> besides mine ?

Simply doing a lexical transformation of RTF or vanilla LaTeX to XML
is, if not trivial, at least straight-forward; the challenge is
getting from the very loose structure and semantics of RTF or LaTeX to
a real-world XML document type.

All the best,

David

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