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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: XML in .NET - more than just SOAP?
 I'm wondering to what standard Office's "flavor of HTML" conforms to? This snippet from a word doc saved as html uses xml namespaces but I can't find a reference to using xmlns within an <html></html> tag/document:? <html xmlns:v="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:vml" xmlns:o="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:office" xmlns:w="urn:schemas-microsoft-com:office:word" xmlns="http://www.w3.org/TR/REC-html40"> <head> <meta http-equiv=Content-Type content="text/html; charset=windows-1252"> <meta name=ProgId content=Word.Document> <meta name=Generator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <meta name=Originator content="Microsoft Word 9"> <link rel=File-List href="./XTP_files/filelist.xml"> <title>XTP: eXtensible Transport Protocol</title> <!--[if gte mso 9]><xml> <o:DocumentProperties> . . . WRT to "The Office team has not stated any future goals about turning Office into a general XML authoring tool". While they may not have, i've heard from people within MS that Gates was so mad about the "xml support" in Word 2k that people got fired over it. I have also heard that Gates has said that (at least) word would be very xml in it's next release (implied "or else"). I somehow kind of doubt that MS will ever emit truely confomant xml, html etc. So far as I know they have not done so yet on any other standards they have "embraced and extended". They have a large disencentive to do so since making interchange/storage formats open would level the playing field and open Office to competition. Dave LeBlanc -----Original Message----- From: Chris Lovett [mailto:clovett@m...] Sent: Monday, July 31, 2000 8:13 AM To: xml-dev@l... Subject: RE: XML in .NET - more than just SOAP? Let me correct some mis-information floating around this thread. Office 2000 has never claimed to be an "XML" authoring tool. The http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?URL=/library/officedev/ofxml2k /ofxml2k.htm page says: "Microsoft Office 2000 supports Hypertext Markup Language (HTML) as a native file format. Using HTML, Office documents and data can be stored, distributed, and presented in a format that can be viewed using most Web browsers, while retaining the rich content and functionality of Office documents stored using the traditional companion binary file formats." Office 2000 generates a flavor of HTML that "can be viewed using mose Web browsers". This is the stated goal, nothing more. Office 2000 does NOT generate XHTML, but as some have noted, it does consume it ok. Office 2000 does NOT generate XML. Office 2000 is not "broken". General XML authoring was not a stated goal. It does however embed some islands of well-formed XML inside the HTML pages. This is intended for Office use only. If you can figure out how to post-process the HTML to extract and manipulate this XML then more power to you. The Office team has not stated any future goals about turning Office into a general XML authoring tool, but there are plenty of ways you can voice your opinion on this subject. See http://msdn.microsoft.com/vstudio/technical/community.asp. Chris Lovett Program Manager WebData Team Microsoft. 
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