Typically there is a "script", not the code kind, that is followed for every dodgy Word document received, and following the script is outsourced. The productio

Typically there is a "script", not the code kind, that is followed for every dodgy Word document received, and following the script is outsourced. The production team is in charge of coordination with the outsourced team and final proofing of the XML and all the vagaries of pre publication that comes from 90s era processes and software and interactions with other ancient systems. However! Once published and out the door, the shiny XML is available for scraping and transformation, and, if OA, there is no reason the XML can't be made public: https://github.com/elifesciences/elife-article-xml https://github.com/elifesciences/elife-article-xml An excellent bit of software that takes advantage of it is Lens: https://github.com/elifesciences/lens https://github.com/elifesciences/lens