Hi all, Just to provide you with some more information.
What's New for "Office 11" Developers? http://msdn.microsoft.com/library/default.asp?url=/library/en-us/dnoffta lk/html/office12092002.asp I advise anyone interested on this topic to read this document. Everything else is speculation at the moment. Note: "Creating an XML file based on a customer-defined XML schema is as straightforward as clicking New on the File menu, clicking New XML document, and following the directions in the new XML Structure task pane to attach an XML schema to the document and create structured XML content, as shown in Figure 1 and Figure 2." Who cares which schema Microsoft uses; I want to define my own so to extract meaningful data according to my needs. "For those already familiar with working XML and transformations, "Word 11" is built on Microsoft XML v5.0, giving you much of the power with which you are already familiar. You can insert chunks of XML anywhere in a Word document by using transformations to the Microsoft Word XML document schema or HTML and use MSXML schema validation to maintain the integrity of the data. With XML structure in a Word document, your solution can be more robust by locking down parts of a document to prevent editing or by enforcing the usage of specific fonts and formatting" Well I believe that this is useful for CMS as far as I've read the needs of people being stated in this list. By the way, Office 11 is a full blown Office version, is not an Office 2000 Update. Two things can be happening, or Microsoft is fully (100%) deceiving us on their article (even snapshots are fake), or the author of the CNET article is not telling us all the truth. The CNET article looks fishy to me but I can't be sure (too much of anti Microsoft statements to be an impartial article). Seams like enterprise politics --- "Rischel said that corporate data locked in Microsoft file formats is a huge industry problem. But he added that there is a potential solution, if customers react before Microsoft releases Office 11 next summer. "If these companies really want to not have the files and resources locked up in files in proprietary formats, the best they can do now is support efforts like the OASIS effort," he said." Use of words - Huge Problem? For whom? Is it really locked (do they know that Office can save files in RTF)? Who is Rischel? Pardon me my ignorance. Best regards, Nuno Lopes Independent Consultant. PS: It might turn out that Office 11 is a flop. We just have to wait and see or make your bets. -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
