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Dave Winer wrote: > > I think the most important thing about XML is that it will give users > choices. > > If Microsoft, for example, were to store all their Office > files in XML then you could use any other tool to > work on the files. This is a far from foregone conclusion. Sure, it could be encoded in XML, and the underlying data structure more easily discerned, but then again, reverse-engineering the Word file format is a doable task, too. So the XML encoding makes the job easier, but you *still* need to have an application that understands the built-in structuring rules enough to make sense of the data. MS Office XML file formats are helpful only insofar as they are well-documented and parseable from an application point of view. Without that, I can generate a nice tree from JUMBO, but what else can I do? Not a lot... My point in all this is to point out that *only* well-supported, public DTDs (and maybe even sample code to parse example instances of the data) are going to make the big changes happen. When you and I agree on what XML spreadsheet data *looks like*, then we're onto something. -- Michael J. Suzio Interconnect of Ann Arbor msuzio@a... / 1-734-665-5342 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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