Re: XML (was: Re: [SLUG] Cancell My Visit To The WP Office 2000 Pres.)

["Andrew Reilly" <areilly@nospam.nsw.bigpond.net.au>]

On Mon, Apr 03, 2000 at 11:26:22AM +1000, Rev Simon Rumble wrote:
> When the ecstasy wears off (smile) you might realise that it's just as
> possible to write a proprietary XML format as it is a binary one.  Sure
> there's more scope for reverse-engineering the format but there are plenty
> of ways to obfuscate that...

I've been waiting for this to dawn on people for a while.

It doesn't even have to be obfuscated.  As long as the conceptual
document models are different, and the restrictions on item placement
imposed by the various rendering engines aren't taken into account,
you still won't be able to get useful import/export features.
That's even before you start to talk about dynamic elements like
forms, linked charts, bibliographies...

Sure, it's a step in the right direction, because at least it
should be possible to robustly parse out the (text) content.

-- 
Andrew
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