Method and system for producing documents in a structured format

A document production system comprising a processor having an editor interface and memory access means, the processor comprising:

• means for writing a document having characters in a word processor format to memory;
• means for writing document publication parameter values to memory, said values representing Document Type Definition information for a target structured document;
• means for automatically correcting the document according to typesetting rules;
• means for automatically tagging the document with internal system tags to delimit character strings by inserting said tags next to the associated character strings, the tagging being performed according to the publication parameter values and operator responses, and in which said parameter values set a sequence of sections of the document, said sequence determining activation of tagging programs in sequence, each said tagging program having code for tagging an associated document section;
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• means for automatically converting the document to a structured format by substituting said tags and non-standard characters with structured format code to provide a structured document.