Thanks, John. I appreciate you pointing me in the right direction! On Thursday, 18 November 2021 at 18:15:53 UTC John MacFarlane wrote: > > The dev version of pandoc has support for custom readers in Lua. > You could try that, using a Lua XML parser to do most of the > heavy lifting. > > writes: > > > Hi, > > I’m also currently working a bit on BITS and I think both a Reader and a > Writer would be nice to have. > > Best, > > Denis > > > > Von: pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org Im > Auftrag von Albert Krewinkel > > Gesendet: Mittwoch, 17. November 2021 18:53 > > An: pandoc-...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org > > Betreff: Re: New reader suggestion: BITS reader > > > > Hi Julia, > > > > BITS support would be nice. I've also thought about handling MECA. > > > > If you haven't seen it yet, you might be interested in transpect, a > different format conversion tool built mostly on XSLT. See > https://transpect.github.io. It can handle BITS and docx as far as I know. > > > > Another project you might like is OS-APS (https://os-aps.de). It > doesn't handle your use case yet, but might in the future. (Disclosure: I > contribute to that project) > > > > Cheers, > > Albert > > > > Am 17. November 2021 09:06:32 MEZ schrieb Julia Diaz >: > > The reason I'm proposing this is because, as part of an academic > project, I am exploring ways to develop a tool to transform BITS XML into > DOCX. This is relevant for the use case of academic book publishing, where > XML archives of previous editions need to be transformed into DOCX for > authors to work in the new edition. This is a recurrent scenario, and > academic publishers spend today considerable time and money in third party > conversions that could easily and efficiently be handled in house. > > > > Since this is a scheduled project with time and deadlines assigned to it > (full or partial completion by September 2022 at the latest), I will > develop a version of a full or partial tool. This can take the form of new > BITS Pandoc Reader or as something else (I am exploring OxGarage as well, > and also the option of a completely standalone java tool developed from > scratch). > > > > I would be very interested in hearing opinions about this. Any > objections? Or any rival work that has already started and that I have > somehow missed? > > > > Thanks, > > Julia > > > > On Tuesday, 16 November 2021 at 16:06:41 UTC Julia Diaz wrote: > > This one is a tricky to search for, for obvious reasons ('bits' it's > actually a very common word), so I have been unsuccessful in finding > relevant discussions. But here it is: > > > > BITS XML, as in the book extension of JATS XML, does not seem to be > supported, in either input or output formats. > > > > Would developing a BITS XML reader (and later a writer one) be a > relevant idea? > > > > Thanks > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFFw@public.gmane.org>. > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/932C0BF6-1DF6-43F2-A5EC-6CBFE0439F70%40zeitkraut.de > < > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/932C0BF6-1DF6-43F2-A5EC-6CBFE0439F70%40zeitkraut.de?utm_medium=email&utm_source=footer > >. > > > > -- > > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google > Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. > > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send > an email to pandoc-discus...-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org > > To view this discussion on the web visit > https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/14a50459cee74e2a83d030d38a9cfe97%40unibe.ch > . > -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "pandoc-discuss" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to pandoc-discuss+unsubscribe-/JYPxA39Uh5TLH3MbocFF+G/Ez6ZCGd0@public.gmane.org To view this discussion on the web visit https://groups.google.com/d/msgid/pandoc-discuss/c792488d-3533-48ed-89e2-0283b8e13a99n%40googlegroups.com.