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Re: Common Word Processing Format


word processing formats
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>>>
>>>Thank GODDESS for the OO XML project, Microsoft's partially reformed
>>>Office XML format team, and all others who are saving us from the abject
>>>horror of having to contemplate XHTML as an office file format.
>>>
>>>Are you kidding me?
>>>
>>>All arguments for XHTML everywhere eventually boil down to arguments
>>>that rather than 
>>>
>>><monty>
>>>  <python/>
>>></monty>

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> 
>>>I should write:
>>>
>>><div class="monty">
>>>  <span class="python"/>
>>></div class"monty">
>>>
>>>No bloody thank you.  Freedom from naming-by-committee is what drew me
>>>to XML in the first place.  I am not about to chuck that freedom for the
>>>very false comfort of a protean generic identifier.

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> 
>>Given that you can't do what you want in OOWrite and only painfully and 
>>with a bad UI in MSWord, why are you celebrating those formats?
> 
> 
> Can't do what I want?  I don't follow.
> 

Sorry, I should have been clearer. You gave an example of a custom XML 
structure and a corresponding (incorrect) XHTML structure. I tried to 
say that what you want (your XML structure) cannot be done or be done 
with difficulty (in MSOffice). I was wondering why you "Thank GODDESS 
for the OO XML project, Microsoft's..." ?

Even if we are not talking about the narrow scope of Massachusetts IT 
desire/dilemma, why are the Office formats better than XHTML? Why would 
someone who wants to keep custom formats for internal use want to use 
such a complex presentation format to publish?

best,
-Rob


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