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Re: MS office XML

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• Subject: Re: MS office XML
• From: Justin Lipton <justin@n...>
• Date: Fri, 25 Oct 2002 08:16:43 +1000
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Does anyone know or have ideas about what XML enabled Office 11 actually 
means?

I can't imagine Office having a concept of validity and behaving like a 
true XML editor.
It's easier to envisage  being allowed to define tags (like styles) and 
markup text such that the output document can be appropriately tagged. I 
just can't see it properly handling IDs, IDREFS, ENTITIES, encoding etc. 
etc.

There is a hint of this in the following article
http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,561973,00.asp

Am I being too cynical?
Justin.

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