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Advantages of XML Before Composition

• One source for all: web, print, CD, database, etc.
  • simultaneous production
    (no product X waiting for product Y)
  • no parallel maintenance
• Almost-instant galleys or editors’ proofs
• Fewer communication steps
• Generated text
  • the numbers in a numbered list (1., 2., 3.)
  • the enumerator on a footnote
  • Chapter 1.
  • Figure 3.6
  • (See Figure 3.4: All Cars Eat Gas)