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[dave.m.parker AT gsk.com]

Thank you so much, you've given me a good
direction to go.

"Steven Champeon" <schampeo AT hesketh.com>
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11-Oct-2007 11:45

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Subject	Re: [internetworkers] XML Question

on Thu, Oct 11, 2007 at 11:30:27AM -0400, dave.m.parker AT gsk.com
wrote:
> I found this in the contents of the file:
> 
> <document xmlns="urn:hl7-org:v3"
> xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
> xsi:schemaLocation="urn:hl7-org:v3 
> http://www.fda.gov/oc/datacouncil/schemas/spl/spl.xsd">

That's a markup schema for the Standard for Product Labeling:

 http://www.fda.gov/oc/datacouncil/spl.html

This might be useful:

 http://www.fda.gov/cder/guidance/6719fnl.htm#_Toc97719025
 
but maybe not.
 
> They created it in something called Epic Editor. So do I need this
> application to view it?

Eh, hard to say. It's just an XML document. Any XML-aware editor should
be able to read it.

> Opening the file in Word of course showed all the tags along with
the
> actual copy of the manuscript.

See above.

> My next question is: if all this markup is used to describe a Web
page
> (in effect), how can I view it as it means the browser to display
it?

Where did you get the idea that this has anything to do with Web pages?
It's markup - there was markup before the Web. It's intended to mark up
document information in a structured manner. Whether that has anything
to do with the Web is doubtful. And whether your documents are intended
to be "documents" in the Word sense is also doubtful. Looks to
me like
someone is trying to give you labeling information and expects you to
use it as appropriate; not that they're just asking for the ability to
send you "documents" in other than Word format... I'd read up
on the SPL
schema and find out what the heck it's supposed to be before I assumed
the files they were sending were "manuscripts".

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