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• Subject: Re: InfoPath, OpenOffice,XForms (Was: Low-end Office 1 1 won't do user schemas)
• From: Mike Champion <mc@x...>
• Date: Mon, 14 Apr 2003 21:22:50 -0400
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On Mon, 14 Apr 2003 18:46:55 -0600, Uche Ogbuji 
<uche.ogbuji@f...> wrote:

>
> Auntie Mame is probably neither a Visual Basic programmer, nor very handy 
> with
> the Excel formula language.  And she probably doesn't pass her latest
> Osama bin Ladin joke around with her friends using "show changes".


Also, Auntie Mame may have no use for XML, but Cousin Susie might be able 
to do some cool stuff with Mame's garden club newsletter if it were in XML 
rather than proprietary Word format -- pulling in jokes from RSS-syndicated 
gardening blogs and newsletters, or accessing some "garden joke du jour" 
web service  perhaps --  that her mama never thought possible.  That's the 
whole point of XML, liberating the information from the app that created it 
so that unexpected things can happen. 

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