The LaTeX->XML tools I've tried leave me... sad. They tend to drop some things. For example: vertical space, which becomes a simple newline in a paragraph's text. It would be better to translate vertical space into <vspace/> elements -- that'd be much, much more useful in XSLT than embedded newlines!
So I'm wondering: why couldn't LyX export to XML using a native schema that preserves as much LyX markup as possible, indeed, if not all of it? How does LyX represent documents internally? If it does it in an objectified form then it should be fairly straightforward to walk the document tree and emit XML, no? Or, looking at .lyx files, maybe it should be possible to script a simple LyX->XML conversion.... has anyone tried this before? Nico --
