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

["Aravind Naidu" <aravind.naidu@nospam.software-assoc.com>]

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>
> 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.
>

yes, it is a step in the right direction... Then you need to standardise the
DTD's and then the object model etc. etc.
But then a spew of standards are coming out, WML, tpaML, BML blah blah...
revolving around XML. Currently these are being concentrated on spheres
where interoperability is a necessity. Once they are worked out, some of
these standards can be extended for document xchange (fingers crossed).

What did they say ? One small step....


-- Aravind

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