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• Subject: Re: Low-end Office 11 won't do user schemas, it seems
• From: "Thomas B. Passin" <tpassin@c...>
• Date: Fri, 11 Apr 2003 21:54:32 -0400
• References: <20030411221833.GA28707@s...><20030411191254.E28785@r...> <oprnhpe0hlezizxn@s...>

[Mike Champion]
> One might argue that it creates a window of opportunity for OpenOffice
> because the XML it generates is so much more practical for downstream
> applications to work with than WordML, I guess.  I honestly don't see why
> they bother with WordML; what is the *point* of storing data in XML if the
> schema is so hideous and proprietary than no one can use it without
> proprietary API support?

Well, don't forget, the new xml format is not like that wretched html format
from current versions of Word.  It is quite a bit better than that.  But
they were not about to change their internal document model, so of course
the xml is reflecting that.

Cheers,

Tom P

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