What is the best format for processing?

What is the best format for processing?

Thu, Jun 11 2009 13:13 PM |

Anonymous

I have content that can be provided in plain text, HTML, or (arbitrary schemaless) XML.

What format is going to get the best results? Or will any of these be fine?

Thanks,

Matt

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:15:25 GMT |

ramS

Plain text is your best bet.

Thu, 11 Jun 2009 18:16:23 GMT |

mikepetit

I agree with Ram: plain text is fastest, carries least potential for
analysis errors, etc. We do remove tags from HTML and/or XML, but the
object of that is to get to plain text, so if you can simply provide
that text, you're ahead of the game.