Hello Bryan, thanks for the reply.
Am Samstag 08 September 2007 11:47:27 schrieb bryan rasmussen: > It's completely true that Microsoft Office has ways of associating XML > content with XML Schemas. Unfortunately XML Schemas are not the best > language for describing document formats. Are you hinting for Relax NG here? I am willing to bite into XML schema for the benefit of integration with a rich word processor. Obviously my initial hope and even - possibly absurd to you - expectation was that OOo would allow that already. > One of the typical MS > marketing things is that this will not require any programming just > have your schema and your markup and you have to do nothing, which is > laughable (hey you should at least do some work in design mode). But I > suppose people find that out sooner or later. Well, what's true for us, is that this will help us to make users edit documents and be sure, the data can be easily extracted. I mean, that's what you told people why ODF is so good, because it has a schema and people can process it. We don't mind programming, not at all. But we do have work flows that involve people, that cannot possibly work efficient when staring at a bunch of tags only, with no WYSIWYG. These people are highly appreciated in fact. They want to be able to look at things, and paste them into bigger documents. Like taking test scripts of their choice and copying them to documents that contain a test plan. And we developers would like the result of that to be something we can automatically process. So, I guess, the real questions are: a) As XML already allows to mix several schemas in one document, what's going to happen if I open it in OOo (or KOffice, I have yet to ask them, what they have), modify and save it. Will it be one schema only? b) If not, could that be considered a bug by the projects. c) Provided OOo/KOffice can transport foreign data, how hard would it be to expose this on the GUI in one form or another? d) And given a mixed schema template document, I guess, it wouldn't be too hard, to create something to make it from data. Best regards, Kay Hayen PS: I am willing to invest development time of my own into this. --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
