Apologies for cross-posting, but I think this might be of interest to both of these lists.

Molly Sharp, newly appointed product manager for content management at PLOS, has this post on the newly-created PLOS technology blog.

http://blogs.plos.org/tech/structured-documents-for-science-jats-xml-as-canonical-content-format/?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+plos%2Fblogs%2Fmain+%28Blogs+-+Main%29

Her query

               If XML is being used as an interchange format only, what do we gain from moving the XML piece of the workflow any further upstream from final delivery?

Would be very interested in thoughts from members of these two lists.

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