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> At 02:46 PM 3/19/99 -0600, Paul Prescod wrote: > >In other words, XML is as asymmetric as SGML. Actually neither is really > >very asymmetric because you can't (well, shouldn't) get data into them > >before you have designed your document type. So input and output are both > >pretty difficult if you compare them, say, to Microsoft Word which is > >usually the benchmark people use to demonstrate how hard SGML systems are > >to build. > > Ah, but if MS Word had a simple "Save-To-XML" option that let users save > their documents using markup based on the styles they've built. Three > times now, I've seen organizations that had done a lot of very good > informal work with Word styles, and no easy path for those structures or > the documents that use them to move to XML. I guess the incentive just > isn't there for MS to make life easy. There are tools to do it, but it's > still not much fun. (Another painful case of asymmetry.) > > Simon St.Laurent Word does have a "Save to RTF" which looks like it could be useful as an intermediate step. Andrew McNaughton -- ----------- Andrew McNaughton andrew@s... http://www.newsroom.co.nz/ 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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