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Now that the press is (prematurely) declaring Microsoft's imminent demise [1], perhaps we can stop worrying about MS Office's XML support (why hitch your cart to an allegedly dying horse?) and look at Linux. For those of you who don't know, the current incarnation of the emacs/vi or sh/csh religious battle (or perhaps SGML/XML) in the Linux world is KDE vs. Gnome as the desktop manager. I'm in the Gnome camp, so it is with mixed feelings that I draw attention to the fact that KOffice for KDE (see article [2]) uses XML-based save formats for *all* of its applications (word processor, spreadsheet, formula designer, presentation manager, etc. etc.). To be fair, the main Gnome spreadsheet also uses a (no doubt incompatible) XML-based save format. There's also a hot rumour [3] that Microsoft has assigned 37 programmers to work on a Linux port of MS Office. The place to go for this kind of stuff is slashdot.org, which is heavy on the hacker look-and-feel. All the best, David [1] http://www.cnn.com/TECH/computing/9903/24/mslinux.html/ (and many others) [2] http://www.mieterra.com/article/koffice.html [3] http://www.heise.de/newsticker/data/cp-19.03.99-000/ (auf Deutsch) -- David Megginson david@m... http://www.megginson.com/ 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/ and on CD-ROM/ISBN 981-02-3594-1 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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