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RE: Common Word Processing Format

  • To: "Uche Ogbuji" <uche.ogbuji@f...>, <xml-dev@l...>
  • Subject: RE: Common Word Processing Format
  • From: "Nathan Young -X \(natyoung - Artizen at Cisco\)" <natyoung@c...>
  • Date: Fri, 2 Dec 2005 12:37:17 -0800
  • Thread-index: AcX3eYEN2XgsVuZURL6oWMYPZqb+LgABTxKg
  • Thread-topic: Common Word Processing Format

word processing whitespace
Hi.

> And why on earth would I expect an *Office document* user to write a
> document like
> 
> <monty>
>   <python/>
> </monty>
> 
> ???

We have lots of use cases where we have business owners or content
owners who are responsible for content that has a very coherent semantic
structure and that we would like to store in a purpose made XML format.
At the same time, these users have a limit on their technical skills
that stops short even of advanced WP skill in the MS GUI environments.

Being able to present a good looking and dummy proof editing environment
for arbitrary XML formats would be really nice.

> Umm.  CSS works perfectly well with custom XML, thank you very much,
> and this is supported on almost all browsers.

I am interested in pursuing this and I will look at your tutorials.

It's going to be a while (if ever) before I replace:

> > <ul class="navigation">
> >  <li><a href="home" class="home-link">home</a></li>
> >  <li><a href="next">next</a></li>
> >  <li><a href="previous">previous</a></li>
> > </ul>

With something like:

<navigation>
  <nav-item><a href="home" class="home-link">home</a></nav-item>
  <nav-item><a href="next">next</a></nav-item>
  <nav-item><a href="previous">previous</a></nav-item>
</navigation>

For delivery to the browser.  Is that what you are suggesting?


> > 
> > Many microformats are also valid design patterns to my eye.
> 
> I think most microformats in most cases are a hopeless 
> stretch

We can disagree about this.  I'm sold on microformats for some cases, I
think XFN is a decent example for reasons I explained earlier.

--->N


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