Echelon Game Design publishing workflow makes heavy use of XML. DocX (Word documents) are ZIP files containing XML, which makes it convenient to use XSLT to parse and process the content. Ultimately I output to many different formats, including documents (PDF via LaTeX; HTML and Word are in the works) and images (prerequisite diagrams showing how the individual items are connected.
The process involves several namespaces, and since I used URIs pointing at this site I figured I’d document them here… even if I’m the only one to use it.
| Workflow Element | Description |
|---|---|
| Glossary | List of important terms and their definitions. |
| Markup | Markup as done in Word source files. Heavy use of styles, and some delimiter conventions used in document and object headings. |
| Namespaces | XML namespaces used throughout the XML workflow. |
| Transformations | The series of transformations from source files to final output. |