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RE: Round Tripping XML via low-end version?

• To: 'Dare Obasanjo' <dareo@m...>, Neil Bradley <neil.bradley@r...>, xml-dev@l...
• Subject: RE: Round Tripping XML via low-end version?
• From: "Bullard, Claude L (Len)" <clbullar@i...>
• Date: Tue, 15 Apr 2003 15:00:56 -0500

There is a Word-lite.  It is called WordPad.  The 
next lighter thing is NotePad.

Dare, MS should rethink this strategy if it doesn't 
want to see its hold on the desktop start to be chipped 
away.  There has to be a way to scale out to the 
low-end user who contributes to high-end data collections.
.doc is not the answer.  The files are bigger than 
my ego and just as nasty to ship on the network. 
Not to preach, guy, but the market and desktop 
share MS has makes them more than a little responsible 
for the glut in the pipes.

Ya gotta support user-defined schemas in low end products.

len

-----Original Message-----
From: Dare Obasanjo [mailto:dareo@m...]

This is not a supported scenario. In general the custom markup should be
lost in such cases. Personally, I'd advise on standardizing on the
Professional version of Word 2003 in such cases or using only WordML or
.doc files if exchanging documents between versions of Word where one
version does not support customer defined XML schemas. 


PS: There is no version of Word 2003 known as Word-lite. The various
SKUs of Office 2003 as well as an overview of what professional-level
features each will support is available at
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/newsroom/office/factsheet/OfficeSKUFS
.asp . There should be a more detailed breakdown of what functionality
will be available and supported in the coming months. 

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