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So far, the only reliable witness outside of MS on this list is Tim Bray. I don't see why they couldn't do it. There were SGML editors that handled worse and still managed to be WYSIWYG. The tedious part was setting them up, but otherwise, it could be done. XML is simpler than SGML. The painful thing about WYSIWYG was it usually presumed a fixed set of types internally, so it was more like an HTML editor, just better at formatting. But the thrust of the XML seems to be opening Word, Excel, etc. up to easier integration. That can mean any number of things with regard to how each Office app uses XML. Remember, Office is more than Word. If it all works, it will be pretty darned neat, and a bit of risk for MS since Office is traditionally a cash cow but a pain to integrate with anything other than MS products. If what I read is true, then this enables the Office apps to get information updates from other sources, so as one article said, like a web browser without the web browser. Maybe you are being too cynical, but hey, this is XML-Dev. We live to cynic. :-) len From: Justin Lipton [mailto:justin@n...] Does anyone know or have ideas about what XML enabled Office 11 actually means? I can't imagine Office having a concept of validity and behaving like a true XML editor. It's easier to envisage being allowed to define tags (like styles) and markup text such that the output document can be appropriately tagged. I just can't see it properly handling IDs, IDREFS, ENTITIES, encoding etc. etc. There is a hint of this in the following article http://www.eweek.com/article2/0,3959,561973,00.asp Am I being too cynical?
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