True, but that's why standards are for... Have a look at http://www.w3.org/ as they are working on html, xml, etc standards and they pretend them to be widely spread.
M$ is not a reference to proof a standard. I read somewhere that M$ worked together with other companies to get HTML transactional 4 (look the web above), but in the end what they have made is: their products to understand the standard they among others aproved, but when designing a web page by default their programs violate it!!! For example: M$ frontpage does by default: <strong><big> text </strong></big> Should be: <strong><big> text </big></strong> They don't close some tags, use options that does not exist, ... Don't know about xml treatment, but from what I know about html, don't think of how M$ products XML output is, but if they read the XML produced by another program. El mar, 01-04-2003 a las 21:46, Praedor Atrebates escribió: > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- > Hash: SHA1 > > On Tuesday 01 April 2003 02:29 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > > IIRC, OpenOffice.org is working with OASIS to correct this very problem.... > > > > Here's hoping... > [...] > > -----Original Message----- > > From: diego [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:44 AM > > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > > Subject: Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format. > > > > > > XML is universal and should perform ok with any perl/whatever script to > > convert to/from any other format. Only backdraw I can think of is > > unefficiency (you'd probably end with much more tags than data > > itself)... > [...] > > It has been my understanding that XML isn't a panacea and isn't necessarily > universal. As I understood it for instance, M$ is supposed to use XML in its > default Word format output in the nearish future - but that this doesn't in > any way assure that OO/SO or Wordperfect, etc, would be able to understand > it. I am no XML expert by any means, just guiding loosely on what came up > during discussion at slashdot several weeks back. > > It would be nice if this were wrong - if XML would actually make it more > likely to be able to open docs/files cross-platform (REAL > cross-platform/cross-os). > > praedor > > - -- > Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of > common sense. > -- Chapman Cohen > > Fingerprint: > D170 2A02 B426 6AA0 5E68 3EDC 68AA FDB0 961E 4F18 > -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- > Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) > > iD8DBQE+ieyuaKr9sJYeTxgRAlLOAKCjAlcyYFMh9sP5lM0O59caBHIhmQCfZmQA > 5xylQJ4DzbHirJ4iLbrhRWA= > =/enz > -----END PGP SIGNATURE----- > > ---- > > Want to buy your Pack or Services from MandrakeSoft? > Go to http://www.mandrakestore.com -- Diego Dominguez __/\__ | | Andalucia / \ Spain \ / |__ __| \/
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