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[Forwarded from betty Harvey who has difficulties posting] >Dear All: > > I was going to write a synopsis of the SGML/XML Europe >conference for those interested but Peter Murray-Rust has >provided an excellent overview of the conference. > > There are a few points that I would like to add to >Peters comments: > >2nd Day Plenary - Microsoft and Netscape > > It was amazing to me to see representatives of both Microsoft and >Netscape sharing the stage and talking about the future of XML in their >respective products. Jean Paoli (Microsoft) showed now XML will be the >underlying data format for the next release of Microsoft Office (Word, >Excel and Powerpoint). He didn't get deeply into the technical details but >I personally didn't see where it will be possible for Word to save files >in XML using arbitrary DTD's. > > Bernard Feinstein (Netscape) talked about the open systems >development and that 'data should be free' (Peter talks about this concept >in his synopsis). There are a few points from Bernard's talk that >I think are worth mentioning. > > 1. Both Oracle and Sybase (as well as other software vendors > he didn't mention) have committed to porting their software > to LINUX. This is great news for those of us currently > running LINUX. > 2. Netscape 5.0 will use CSS2 for the style for XML. I have a > concern if Netscape supports CSS2 and Microsoft supports > XSL for style does that leave us again with incompatibility > of data (style). > 3. JavaScript will come into compliance with ECMAscript. > 4. They have created a XML/Mozilla Advisory Board which > Peter talks later about. > 5. Netscape will support NFS. > >There was a whole morning session devoted to XML/EDI initiative. >Unfortunately, I had a meeting during this session but talked with >folks afterwards and it was very well attended. > >My favorite quote from the conference was from Cees van der Does, >Philips Business Communications Systems: 'Linking theory with the real >world is very messy'. > >If this conference showed one thing it was that we have finally >bridged the gap between theory and the real world. Ocaccionally, we got >'messy' along the way but I think it was worth it. > >Now more from Peter. > >Betty > >/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/ >Betty Harvey | Phone: 301-540-8251 FAX: 4268 >Electronic Commerce Connection, Inc. | >13017 Wisteria Drive, P.O. Box 333 | RAILROAD: www.eccnet.com/rif >Germantown, Md. 20874 | >harvey@e... | Washington,DC SGML Users Grp >URL: http://www.eccnet.com | http://www.eccnet.com/sgmlug/ >/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\/\\/\/ > Peter Murray-Rust, Director Virtual School of Molecular Sciences, domestic net connection VSMS http://www.nottingham.ac.uk/vsms, Virtual Hyperglossary http://www.venus.co.uk/vhg xml-dev: A list for W3C XML Developers. To post, mailto:xml-dev@i... Archived as: http://www.lists.ic.ac.uk/hypermail/xml-dev/ To (un)subscribe, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; (un)subscribe xml-dev To subscribe to the digests, mailto:majordomo@i... the following message; subscribe xml-dev-digest List coordinator, Henry Rzepa (mailto:rzepa@i...)
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