Originally published in STC Intercom, December 2008
The invention of movable type changed the economics of information, obsoleting the process of copying and illuminating a book by hand. More than 500 years later, XML seems to be doing the same to desktop publishing. XML can automate structure enforcement, formatting, content customization, and many other tasks normally left for authors and production staff to do manually.
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