Simon:
>Unfortunately, no one yet (so far as I know) has created 
>a friendly one-step legacy HTML->well-formed XML 
>syntax HTML converter.  That's a nice opportunity there for 
>some publicity, if not necessarily $$$...
>Of course, if you want to to use non-HTML vocabulary, 
>you're talking  about something  much larger  than 
>syntax, [...snip...]
 Actually what I was expecting when I posted that question, 
was some pointers  from the 'gurus' on how to go about 
implementing such a convertor ( i.e  a discussion on the 
issues involved)
Help ;-(
- Ajay Gangwar
  majayg@iitk.ac.in