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Re: Whitepapers and ScreenShots of Office 11 XML Featur es

• To: Tim Bray <tbray@t...>
• Subject: Re: Whitepapers and ScreenShots of Office 11 XML Featur es
• From: ari@c... (K. Ari Krupnikov)
• Date: 17 Dec 2002 17:26:17 +0000
• Cc: xml-dev@l...
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Tim Bray <tbray@t...> writes:

> K. Ari Krupnikov wrote:
> 
> > Data formats need to be documented, the documentation needs to be
> > publicly available and correct. No matter how good or bad a format is,
> > if the documentation you have doesn't match what you find in actual
> > files, or if there are crucial features that are not publicly
> > documented, the format is useless.
> 
> Except for, they're usually not.  Good docs are thin on the ground.
> The virtue of the Web was that you could figure it out yourself anyhow
> by doing a "view source".

Except most of those who viewed source *didn't* figure it out, and
that lead to tag soup.

Ari.

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