Pattern of Adoption
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- Conversion shop,
web host, fulfillment service, or composition-house
supports/requires
- Repositories and Aggregators standardize on
conversion target (Atypon, Engenta, et al)
- Publishers replace proprietary did not have a tag
set, or had an old an crusty one
- SGML publishers who take the
opportunity of moving to XML to get out of the tagset
business
- Recent XML adopters take anything public
- Conversion vendors push it, makes their processing easier
- Buzz
on the street
- better than TEI for production
- better than
DocBook for journals (references in particular)