Balisage Paper: The adventures of an early adopter
Geert Bormans
Geert Bormans has long been an angle-bracket jack-of-all-trades. He loves the beauty of a well-architected solution or a pure and simplified process. Geert makes a living as an independent consultant, through his company C-Moria BV, providing XML or Linked Open Data solutions, mainly to the publishing industry. He does so with a broad geographical flexibility.
Geert likes an interesting challenge, easily found when having two teenage daughters. However, he prefers the challenges to involve alpine ground, six strings, or markup.
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Abstract
This paper is a case study about bringing the entire Swiss legislation (Classified Compilation) from MS Word documents to the web in a structured way, already preparing for an XML (Akoma NToso) and PDF publication in the near future.
Built on beta software (using a specification in "last call" ), this paper will focus on what the implications were for an "early adopter".