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David Megginson wrote: > > For those of you who don't know, the current incarnation of the > emacs/vi or sh/csh religious battle (or perhaps SGML/XML) in the Linux > world is KDE vs. Gnome as the desktop manager. I'm in the Gnome camp, > so it is with mixed feelings that I draw attention to the fact that > KOffice for KDE (see article [2]) uses XML-based save formats for > *all* of its applications (word processor, spreadsheet, formula > designer, presentation manager, etc. etc.). Note that other standards in use in KOffice include CORBA, and Linuxdoc/SGML (for KDE documentation). These guys obviously have a standards focus. Probably not coincidentally they use Python for scripting and formulas. -- Paul Prescod - ISOGEN Consulting Engineer speaking for only himself http://itrc.uwaterloo.ca/~papresco "Perpetually obsolescing and thus losing all data and programs every 10 years (the current pattern) is no way to run an information economy or a civilization." - Stewart Brand, founder of the Whole Earth Catalog http://www.wired.com/news/news/culture/story/10124.html xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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