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Re: [xml-dev] "What use are plugins->XML" or "PDF 2 XML"
by Rick Jelliffe other posts by this author
May 4 2002 9:05AM messages near this date
RE: [xml-dev] "What use are plugins->XML" or "PDF 2 XML" | Re: [xml-dev] PDF 2 XML
From: "Jimmy Cerra" <jc2astro@[...].com> 


>  > 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.

Presumably someone has information "archived" in PDF, and they need to get it.

Cheers
Rick Jelliffe

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