John Palmer ([log in to unmask]) writes:
 >
 > I'm pretty new to publishing; but the two publishers I've worked for each
 > have their own peculiar DTD for journal articles.  Where's the
 > standardisation?
 >
two answers:

 a) we were talking about the future, not the present
 b) direct tag compatibility is not so important in the {X,SG}ML
    world, as transformation is well understood and practised. the
    same data has to be present, but not in the same place....(shades
    of Eric Morecambe)

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