Since their electronic version became available, all major newspaper and magazines have been confronted to one problem : publishing their articles both on paper and for the web. The text is the same, but the entire page layout has to be re-designed. Thanks to the characteristics of XML - separating the content and its presentation - using the structure of XML files when designing the page layout would save much time.

Moreover using XML enables to use the same page layout file for different texts or different versions of the same text, which is a great benefit: thus the graphic chart is been respected and updates of articles are easier and quicker to make.

XML workflows use the following architecture:

Even if it is already possible to use XML files and stylesheets in order to create PostScript and HTML files through a stylesheet-processor, the others tools needed are not yet available or usable. The aim of Legba is to provide such tools.