Manipulating XML is Prepress Life Blood
- The tasks
- XML extraction from other files
- Transforming XML tags to typesetting driver code (multiple outputs)
- Rearranging content (into publication order)
- Inserting generated text
(chapter numbers, footnote symbols, automatic Table of Contents)
- Adding metadata from other sources
- Vendors do QA too (they get paid for quality)
- The skill set
- XML transformation
- string manipulation
