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[XML-DEV Mailing List Archive Home] [By Thread] [By Date] [Recent Entries] [Reply To This Message] RE: Re: Are the publishing users happy? Why not?
 So, to repurpose, reuse, reapply? We've always been able to do attachments, that is, either embed a reference to a document or the document itself into the database using say, varchar longs. In the case of XML (using say MEMO fields), the costs weren't that high to embed the document, although embeddding say a scanned image makes one become very aware of DPI. Ever see a database where 80% of the storage is scanned images that are used 20% of the time? But none of these make it much easier to work with the document content as you point out. What will make users happier is easier reuse? However, if this is at the cost of making it harder to publish the original document (say, the RFP), that robs Peter to pay Paul. So the publisher isn't happy. That brings me back to the notion of fused views. The requirements for this don't generally exist outside the enterprise user base. In other words, someone firing off a letter to the editor of the local newspaper doesn't need XML. The news editor might like it though for streamlining his production, so it isn't unthinkable. But again, when a project manager has to create a project plan, or an implementation manager has to create FAT tests, being able to directly access and compare both the proposal and the contract texts side by side at a citable paragraph level is very productive. That is a fused view. One can do that without XML by frontloading relational databases, but it is clunky, tedious, very time consuming, and leaves one with a record of authority problem. The original document should be a data source in its original format. Now XML is helping. len From: Gavin Thomas Nicol [mailto:gtn@r...] Data capture is one small part. Having Office support XML etc. will simplify the effort of converting the data into what I *really* want (so to answer Len's question, XML is *not* important to Office itself, it just makes it a bit easier to work with the data). The real work happens after that... and banging stuff into a database may or may not help. 
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