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On Thu, 2 Mar 2000, Leonard Rosenthol wrote:

> At 11:44 AM 3/2/00 -0600, sam th wrote:
> >However, just for
> >laughs, Microsoft decided that instead of dealing with HTML as a lossy
> >format compared to Word documents, they would just extend the language
> >instead.
> 
>          It wasn't entirely for laughs, but it does feel that way.   Also, 
> the HTML/XML format is only handled natively (AFAIK) by Word2000).
> 
> 
> >As this format is essentially HTML, with lots of extensions via an
> >extended version of XML, we can just work of the HTML exporter.
> 
>          That's true.  FYI: the XML blocks inside the HTML are called (in 
> MS parlance) "XML Islands" and should NOT be added to the normal HTML 
> export since it will make Abi's HTML no longer "validate".
> 
Thanks for the info on "Islands" - what a bad idea.  And I didn't mean to
suggest we should change our real HTML exporter (which I feel sort of
attached to) to output MS garbage.  Only that we can start using the HTML
exporter as a beginning code base.  

> 
> LDR
> 

           
                                sam th               
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