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- TeX is a reliable output engine that can with rather minimal
work provide typographically excellent output;
- simple customization is possible in the input
source via processing instructions or at the level of TeX using
the configuration file fotex.cfg;
- formatting of element types of important DTDs, such as TEI and
DocBook, works well;
- a TeX-based system is a large plus for typesetting scientific
XML documents, especially those containing a lot of maths;
- by using a well-known and ``standard'' DTD, XML can be used
as a lingua franca to transport documents between various
editing and document handling systems. For instance, at CERN we are
testing portability between XML, LaTeX, and FrameMaker/SGML.
Probably we could add Microsoft Word, Wordperfect, etc. when these
applications will have genuine support for XML and XSL.
Michel Goossens
1999-08-13