>  Acrobat 5 has a plugin called XMLExtract or somethign (free from Adobe I
>  think) which attempts to extract XML.

What use are plug-ins that translate (DOC, PDF, etc) to XML???  I don't
think it would be easy, as the main advantage of using XML is that you get
to define the element names to suit the context.

Of course, I understand translating (DOC, PDF, etc) to an XML-application
like DocBook, XHTML, etc...

---
Jimmy Cerra
"Challenging the status quo at the expense of my status, ego..."



>  -----Original Message-----
>  From: Rick Jelliffe [mailto:ricko@[...].au]
>  Sent: Saturday, May 04, 2002 2:03 AM
>  To: xml-dev@[...].org
>  Subject: Re: [xml-dev] PDF 2 XML
> 
>  From: <Kevin.Gutch@[...].com>
> 
>  > Are there any PDF to XML utilities in existence? I assume it is
difficult
>  > to re-purpose PDF to XML.
> 
>  Acrobat 5 has a plugin called XMLExtract or somethign (free from Adobe I
>  think)
>  which attempts to extract XML.  If the document was created by a
>  structured editor, such as FrameMaker+SGML, then there is a fighting
chance
>  that the XML won't be complete crap. Does anyone have experience with it?
> 
>  But people who want to use PDF or XML as archiving formats should beware.
>  Old PDF locks up the data, and XML can have URL dependencies.  So for
>  archiving, treat the XML as sub-SGML, not as super-HTML: make sure you
>  archive all the resources for the document and change system IDs and links
>  to refer to the local version, as snapshots.  (I guess you could also use
a
>  catalog system to override the system IDs, but you don't know whether
>  the software in the future will cope readily with catalogs, so I don't
know
>  that the extra level of indirection is worthwhile.)
> 
>  Cheers
>  Rick
> 
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