On 3/26/06, Walter Landry <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > If you are distributing both, then the XML file is Transparent and the > word file is opaque. My point was that the word file is never > Transparent. I am not saying that the word file can not be > distributed, but that it is never Transparent.
I found out yesterday that there is an xml format which is a word format. In Word 2003, use the "Save As..." dialog -- it's the second option on the drop down list for file formats. More specifically, "word format" means that Word has a document object which it serializes into a file. One of the mechanisms it has for doing so results in an xml file. And, of course, it's perfectly capable of reading these files, and as far as I know you don't lose any features of word with this file format. Plus, of course, you can edit these things with a generic text editor. But this brings up another issue -- I don't think we should accept any such .xml document into Debian main unless we also have a suitable editor (perhaps open office) to support editing that specific content. Otherwise, we'd be introducing a dependency on non-free software (regardless of whether or not that dependency was explicitly presented in the package headers). -- Raul
