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On Fri, 2005-12-02 at 08:35 +0100, bryan rasmussen wrote: > okay well: > "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. > " > > And why are you giving thanks for these projects, because it saves us > from the horrors of writing: > > <div class="monty"> > <span class="python"/> > </div class"monty"> > > > are you kidding me? > > If there is one thing those projects aren't involved in it's the > creation of aesthetically pleasing, non-verbose markup formats. > Microsoft's Office xml makes a tidied version of their html > preferable. And while OO is complete and certainly more logical than > Microsoft's it's not anywhere as simple to deal with as XHTML. > Especially when one considers the number of namespaces involved. > > what would your example above look like in OO, something like: > > > <text:p text:style-name="Monty"> > <text:span text:style-name="Python"/> > </text:p> > > I'm not seeing the clear benefit. Umm. No. I don't want to tunnel my markup within OOXML any more than I want to tunnel it within XHTML. In my preference, my example would look like: <monty> <python/> </monty> My point was: use the best format for the task, and don't be afraid to invent a new format if it's others are fitting a square peg into a round hole, but never, no never play the tunnelling-markup-in-protean GI game of <div class="monty"> <span class="python"/> </div> *OR* <text:p text:style-name="monty"> <text:span text:style-name="python"/> </text:p> Unless that's really sensibly an XHTML class or an OOXML style. -- Uche Ogbuji Fourthought, Inc. http://uche.ogbuji.net http://fourthought.com http://copia.ogbuji.net http://4Suite.org Articles: http://uche.ogbuji.net/tech/publications/
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