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• Subject: Re: "What use are plugins->XML" or "PDF 2 XML"
• From: "Rick Jelliffe" <ricko@a...>
• Date: Sat, 4 May 2002 19:05:30 +1000
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From: "Jimmy Cerra" <jc2astro@h...>


> > 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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