Can XML Help?

[harrysdad]

Every month or three I have to through an exercise of receiving 20-odd company board papers as word documents and trying to make them available via the web site in a short timescale. I had been converting to pdf but the amount of papers is growing, even a zip file containing the pdfs was over 5 mb.

I guess I could save them all as web pages and use the "clean up html" functions in Dreamweaver, then create a print style sheet so users had reasonable printouts if required.

But I had a vague idea of somehow converting them to xml, and using xslt to transform them into different formats - e.g. xhtml, pdf. Trouble is I know very little about xml, and wouldn't know how to go about it, or even if it is feasible.

Any advice would be appreciated.

 

[jaybytez]

I am not familiar with the Dreamweaver function, but check to see if the cleanup converts the HTML to XHTML. XHTML is just HTML with all the XML standardizations and structures. XHTML is a valid XML document and can be parsed (using DOM or SAX) or translated (using XSLT).