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AndrewWatt2000@a... wrote: > http://www.linuxworld.com/2003/0513.murphy.html Bah. Reverse-engineering XML is a heckuva lot easier than reverse-engineering the current MSWord, etc., formats. And by definition then, XSLT can be made to clean it up however you want. My concern about the MSFT adoption of XML -- and where I see "danger" (although that's a fairly overwrought term) -- is that everything is based on the Infoset. There's no standard API (unlike DOM), and no standard data format (unlike any standardized programming language). While there are valid architectural reasons for working this way, I'm sure it hasn't escaped the notice of some in Redmond that this lets them have their cake and eat it too. Perhaps it's time to ask for a new Infoset WG, with the aim of moving from abstract toward interoperable? Like an ASN.1 basis, for example... /r$ -- Rich Salz, Chief Security Architect DataPower Technology http://www.datapower.com XS40 XML Security Gateway http://www.datapower.com/products/xs40.html
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