Hans Aberg writes: > It depends on what one wants to do -- if one merely wants to display a > document, then a format like PDF might be OK. > > But as soon something becomes electronic, there are a lot of other things > one wants to do: Reuse the information in various way. Then in a PDF > format, that information is lost. oh lord, who said anything about PDF as a format for re-use? its a display format. go back to the *ML source if you want to re-purpose. i dont see the issue. I *do* say that PDF has not a good enough linking model to support XLink, mind. Sebastian