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[Steven Champeon <schampeo AT hesketh.com>]

on Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 10:40:07AM -0400, dave.m.parker AT gsk.com wrote:
> Hey everybody,
> 
> Some folks here at my workplace want to start providing manuscripts as XML 
> files instead of Word docs. I'm confused by this, because I thought XML 
> was just a markup language. At any rate, I have these files named 
> "whatever.xml" and I don't know how to view them; if everything works 
> right the only content I should see is the manuscript text, which I should 
> then be able to copy and paste into other applications.

XML *is* just a markup language (technically, a markup metalanguage, as
XML is just a set of rules for making markup languages); you'll need to
find out what DTD/schema they're using, and what application they're
using to create these docs before you'll be able to figure out how to open
and/or edit them. 

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