XML-Centric Workflow Offers Benefits to Scholarly Publishers 

During the transitional paper–electronic period, a nonprofit STM publisher faces the challenge of publishing a scientific journal in both digital and analog formats while controlling costs and ensuring consistency between electronic and printed representations of an article. This must be achieved, as its sophisticated constituency expects a constantly expanding range of information products and services. In a few short years the American Geophysical Union (AGU) leapfrogged from the paste-up era, when authors prepared their own “camera-ready copy” to be pasted on boards for a printer, to the age of XML, when an article marked up in accordance with a custom-designed DTD serves both as a version of record and a source for generating PDF and HTML article representations. Bibliographic and reference metadata are then extracted from the XML article instance into a relational database, which serves as a basis for generating online and print access mechanisms/products, including various tables of contents and author and subject indices.

Schwarzman, Alexander B., Hyunmin Hur, Shu-Li Pai and Carter M. Glass. IDEAlliance (2004). Articles>Publishing>Research>XML