Betty Harvey wrote:
I got a demonstraton of Office 11 (Word and XDocs) last week at XML 2002
in Baltimore. I have to admit I was impressed with what I saw. I have
developed XML authoring applications in XMetal, Arbortext Epic,
WordPerfect and Frame.
[ snip of cool stuff ]
Wow ! Thanks for that. Good to know. The one thing that really interests me about the usability aspects of the "new Word" is : Do users have to see the XML (as what it sound like in your description) or can they just use it like they always have <press B> type bold text <press B> type normal text ? I'm worried from your description that it sounds like it was like using a custom XML editor.
3. It is possible to create invalid XML - this is the biggest
problem that I can see. A user can put text anywhere, even
outside a tag.
This one in particular.
For XML authoring, I would still prefer a native XML editor because it
is easier for the end-user. However, for organizations that have Microsoft upgrade licensing agreements it will be a hard sell.
And this. Having never seen Office 11 (or the movie Oceans Eleven for that matter) I am only guessing, but if you are using it in "document creating Word mode" and choose "save as XML" do you get a) Microsoft proprietary schema generated XML b) The ability to "save as XML using this schema" or c) None of the above. Mostly because the customers I deal with have "content creators" that will use Word and send it to a "content editor/aggregator" who will edit the content and put it into a CMS. Trying to re-train the "content creators" is not a likely scenario but if they can use Word like they always have and send the Word doc to the "content editor" who can "save as XML" then maybe this will really have legs. Especially if the "save as XML" can generate the content in a custom format. Cheers, -- jon -- Jon Eaves <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> http://www.eaves.org/jon/ -- http://cms-list.org/ trim your replies for good karma.
