🚀 go-pugleaf

It happened that I stepped into an emergency situation. The client had been advised to use XML and had fallen on their collective faces. They sent me an XML file. It was the first I'd ever seen.

So I converted the tags to paragraph style tags and did my own thing.

It later transpired that the XML struture they'd set up had failed to address the variable number of packages, and, because they were extracting the XML from an SQL database which had been fed from an Excel spreadsheet using a process that lost vital local styling (italics, super and subscript and Symbols), the XML data was useless.

I had them send me the original spreadsheets and worked from there. It went fairly smoothly. And some of the machinations I had to go through to get those interlocking polygons to mutate to fit the data was both challenging and fun. So, I suspect that I didn't lose anything by not using XML, but I thought I'd ask.

Dave