Good news: Hermes development is partially supported until June 2006 by MPI for Gravitational Physics. A more radical version of Hermes is in the works, 0.9.4 was the last one developed within the ‘deadline’ mindset. My plan is to have a Hermes which generates a clean and validable document model, complete with the metadata necessary [...]

Although the XML examples are converted with a newer version of Hermes than 0.9.3, the source distribution of this newer version won’t be available for download until I get some (reliable promise of) funding explicitly for developing Hermes further (since October 2005), those who are in need can use alternative tools, like tex4ht, or continue [...]

Hermes version 0.9.3 is online: the library document is made of sections (type envelope, section, subsection, subsubsection, bibliography etc.) it has better structured metadata, the citations/bibliography have gone semantic too (no longer on the fly id generation) some bugs fixed (DeclareMathOperator of AMSLaTeX works fine now). the publishing stylesheet is more elegant and exports the [...]