How to Automate Journal Article Conversion to JATS XML with Python

How to Automate Journal Article Conversion to JATS XML with Python If you've ever struggled to convert dozens of Word journal articles to compliant JATS XML for OJS, you know how time-consuming this process can be. Manually converting each article, ensuring formatting is preserved, and validating XML compliance takes hours — if not days — of repetitive work. For academic publishers, researchers, or journal editors, this becomes a bottleneck in their publishing workflow. The Manual Way (And Why It Breaks) Most developers or editors handling journal articles fall back to manual methods: opening each Word file, exporting to PDF, copying and pasting content into XML templates, and painstakingly checking citation and equation formatting. This is error-prone, especially when dealing with thousands of documents. Some teams use spreadsheets to track article metadata or rely on third-party tools that limit batch processing or fail to maintain compliance with NLM standards for JATS XML. The resu