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22nd January 2004 - Link Blog

When Word-to-XML conversion gets nasty. “it is impossible to automatically convert unstructured sources into structured formats”

Posted 22nd January 2004 at 3:06 am

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This is a link post by Simon Willison, posted on 22nd January 2004.

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