Nico Williams wrote:
> 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?

google says:
http://bgu.perso.libertysurf.fr/doc/db4lyx/
http://www.neomantic.com/tutorials/lyx-and-docbookXML/

> 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?

we miss someone who knows docbook/sgml/xml rather well and would like to help
to bring lyx output more up-to-date or at least clearly state what needs to be 
done. 
http://article.gmane.org/gmane.editors.lyx.devel/119220
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