Re: browsers with XSL capabilities

On Sat, 17 Mar 2001, Robert wrote:
> Most editors I
> know have to use some kind of entry system to get their material into XML.
>
> What if those editors could use a wyswig client tool?

I'm not aware of any shortage of these.

> If those editors use Word, then you have an extra step (or a VB program =
> extra step...) to convert that to XML, right?

Yep, and it's only painless if you have sufficient clout (a
large hammer is good :-) to force writers to use your
style template and prevent them from going anywhere near the
Font, Size, or B/U/I controls -- an almost impossible task.

> I see that you are a student (or at least you have an .edu - I hope you
> don't teach...).  Well, I hope your world doesn't change too much when you
> graduate. Try to get email from your corporation's exchange server (yea, the
> web client is great...), or try to read the MSExcel phone list, expense
> report, whatever or try to view the CEO's powerpoint presentation, etc, etc,
> etc.

Is there some problem doing these things? I use Linux all day,
and I get mail from my several employers' Exchange servers, I
read Excel and Word files, and view Powerpoint presentations. I
even <gasp/> create Word files from time to time, and no-one
else is any the wiser...I do have a Windows partition and I
occasionally boot into it to use some more specialist software
but for the everyday stuff I don't see a problem. If people
elsewhere in the orgs were creating IE-specific Web pages,
though, that certainly would be trouble, but they all have a
policy of making their Web pages as widely usable as possible.

The only stumbling-block was unrelated to Windows -- I refuse
point-blank to share or open up my calendar/diary system to
anyone else, purely for reasons of convenience, because I don't
want people scheduling stuff for me without consulting me first.
So the lack of an Office-compliant networked calendar app for
Linux is not a problem, although I can easily see it would be in
other places. Ditto with Access, although my database-using
Linux-based colleagues claim that the ODBC and other links to
Adabas in StarOffice provide all they need.

///Peter

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