As a result, it will become much easier to build derivative products that can combine articles from many different parts of your collection. Converting Quark to XML presents several challenges. Although Quark has a capability to export to a format designated by them as Express Tags there are limitations that preclude exporting more than one story at a time making manual intervention of some kind necessary. Converting tables from Quark to XML presents the biggest problem. Since Quark does not include a table editor it means that you ll need to simulate tables.
Many people simply use tabs and frames to achieve that look.
Although it gets the job done for print purposes it s not a great solution and can cause larger problems when conversion to the web is done. In terms of conversion, you may not be able to tell what s actually a table. The translation from printed page to the web may look like text separated by tabs, spaces and forced spans. If you re building software to help automate a large conversion project you will be stuck attempting to guess what is a table with its related structure. The advantage is that you ll end up with more structured Quark files.