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The next step in the process selects and transforms the relevant source in-
formation. For example, if one is producing a webpage for a project, then
only information relevant to the project is extracted, such as its title, descrip-
tion, personnel, and so on. Here is what a project might look like after the
source information for one project has been extracted from the source:
<?xml version="1.0" encoding="UTF-8"?>
<!DOCTYPE Project SYSTEM "project.dtd">
dealing with the genetic basis for type II or non-insulin
dependent diabetes mellitus (NIDDM). Substantial progress
has been made toward understanding the etiology of NIDDM.
By organizing the literature of NIDDM, it is expected that
one will be able to identify new therapeutic targets for
treatment of this common disease more effectively.
...
This step is mainly concerned with selecting relevant source information and
rearranging it appropriately. For the most part it will not modify the source
information significantly.
The last step is to transform the selected information to a presentation for-
mat such as HTML or PDF. Unlike the previous step, this can result in a
substantially different format. The PDF format is completely different from
XML. Here is what the example above might look like in HTML:
content="text/html; charset=UTF-8">