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Without knowledge of Office 11 XML, I _can_ say that Microsoft has mastered the techniques of hiding in plain sight. Obfuscated C will compile and excecute, but actually reading and understanding the source code is another matter. Automatically generated code can quickly become dense beyond human powers of comprehension. It may be possible to use Microsoft products to produce clean code, but just let one 'nice' little feature seduce the unsuspecting user and... And they said _I_ was mad... Chris Gray - Systems Analyst - University of Waterloo Library It's GNU/Linux dammit! <http://www.gnu.org/gnu/why-gnu-linux.html> Happy Birthday RMS!! GNU/Linux Month, 16 Mar 03-15 Apr 03 On Wed, 19 Mar 2003, Simon St.Laurent wrote: > joshuaa@m... (Joshua Allen) writes: > >One might > >wonder why he would mention these two unrelated things (Office 11 XML > >and "proprietary XML") in the same article. > > I look forward to the time when more developers have encountered Office > 11 XML for themselves. It'll be nice when the complaints are grounded > in reality rather than speculation. ;-) > > -- > Simon St.Laurent > Ring around the content, a pocket full of brackets > Errors, errors, all fall down! > http://simonstl.com -- http://monasticxml.org > > ----------------------------------------------------------------- > The xml-dev list is sponsored by XML.org <http://www.xml.org>, an > initiative of OASIS <http://www.oasis-open.org> > > The list archives are at http://lists.xml.org/archives/xml-dev/ > > To subscribe or unsubscribe from this list use the subscription > manager: <http://lists.xml.org/ob/adm.pl> >
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