I have begun to tackle this from the perspective of Scripter, so instead of sifting out tiny bits from an SLA file, I build an XML from scratch, then transform from there.
Here is the beginning of a wiki page about this: http://wiki.scribus.net/canvas/Scribus_XML_using_Scripter What this may lead to is a way to eventually by some means generate xhtml which might be the start of an ebook. Greg
