XML is universal and should perform ok with any perl/whatever script to
convert to/from any other format. Only backdraw I can think of is
unefficiency (you'd probably end with much more tags than data
itself)...
Anyway, it seems you have hit a good point: missing aplication
standards!!
El mar, 01-04-2003 a las 18:11, Anne Wilson escribi�:
> On Tuesday 01 Apr 2003 4:36 pm, Praedor Atrebates wrote:
> > I certainly understand the desire to not support M$ file formats. Even
> > though M$ doesn't gain directly from such support, they do peripherally.
> > It perpetuates the use of M$ software and the idea that M$ is a "standard"
> > that people need to follow. This sort of thinking is one of the reasons
> > that people seem to automatically assume that it is OK to send you a *.doc
> > file because, NATURALLY, you will use Windoze and/or Word. Of COURSE it is
> > acceptable to send *.doc files or request/require doc files because
> > everyone uses Word/windoze. It is better to encourage use of more
> > democratic/open formats, kill the assumption that everyone uses M$ products
> > and they are all that exist or are useful.
> >
> > It is handy to be able to read other people's files, regardless of the app
> > they used to create it, but it is better if a more universally available
> > and untied format is used. It irritates me when I receive a doc file from
> > a family member who has made the above erroneous assumption. This is an
> > endemic problem that can best be addressed by using open formats whenever
> > possible in preference to ANY closed format.
> >
> Fish and fruit, IMHO. .doc files are unnecessary, for the most part, because
> .rtf can deal with most of what people want to do. With spreadsheets I have
> not found any universally read file format if formatting needs to be kept.
> .csv is fine if it doesn't. Until there's an option, I use what's there.
> I'll change if you can show me one.
>
> Anne
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