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Has anyone read the latest article on XML implementation in Office 2000? http://webreview.com/wr/pub/1999/04/02/edge/index.html?wwwrrr_19990402.txt <SOAPBOX stance='atop'> What does the STANDARDIZATION of XML have to do with enforcing a software standard? If Lotus and Corel and all these other office suite vendors adopt XML as the standard reads, and Microsoft maims XML implementation so that an XML doc saved in Office 2000 can't be read by other vendors' applications, does it not become clear who is in the wrong here? No one (that I can think of) WANTS Microsoft to implement their own 'flavor' of XML. The whole point of XML (I gathered) was so that anyone's browser (or application) could open and read ranting.xml without fear of not having the "right" software to read the document. I have Office (I have no choice, since it's the "standard") but when I have to share something, If I can't fit it in Outlook (another "standard") then I attach a .txt file. I don't have to worry about anyone's application not supporting that. If it's too big, or needs graphics, then I post it on the web or intranet, in HTML 3.2 (no DHTML or stinkin' BLINK tags) and forget about it, cuz I know noone should have trouble reading it. Just like the guy in this article. Why not apply the same logic to his documents that he does to his webpages? Then he doesn't have to chastise anyone (like anyone using Linux) about not using Word. Ok, I feel a bit better now.... </SOAPBOX> Jason A. Buss Single Engine Technical Publications Cessna Aircraft Co. jabuss@c... "I don't dislike Microsoft products... I still use Flight Simulator religiously..." 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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