Hi Austin, I do not know the context of your restriction so my answer may be off target. Anyway I would like to provide my opinion, but before let me make you a question?
>The easy solution is to just publish them as PDFs, but that just doesn't >seem to be the elegant solution in my mind. Can I ask why? My Opinion: Just publish it them on PDF (or any other format as stated on your SOP for legal reasons), and make a statement on your SOP that the primary document is in PDF (Master Record). Now probably you want the information to be available also in HTML or XML. That is easy, maintain the same page separators (some HTML/XML tag) and put bookmarks on it. But probably you need to assure the information presented in HTML/XML is exactly the same as in the Primary Record. Describe how you assure this constraint by providing an irrefutable automatic procedure (hard to achieve but can be done). Another approach is to say that the document in XML is your primary record, although it may be harder to implement this due to your organization culture or probably not. Hope it helps, Nuno Lopes Independent Consultant. -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
