-----BEGIN PGP SIGNED MESSAGE----- Hash: SHA1 On Tuesday 01 April 2003 02:29 pm, JOHAM,DAVID (HP-Boise,ex1) wrote: > IIRC, OpenOffice.org is working with OASIS to correct this very problem.... > > Here's hoping... [...] > -----Original Message----- > From: diego [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] > Sent: Tuesday, April 01, 2003 11:44 AM > To: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Subject: Re: [expert] open source spreadsheet file format. > > > 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)... [...]
It has been my understanding that XML isn't a panacea and isn't necessarily universal. As I understood it for instance, M$ is supposed to use XML in its default Word format output in the nearish future - but that this doesn't in any way assure that OO/SO or Wordperfect, etc, would be able to understand it. I am no XML expert by any means, just guiding loosely on what came up during discussion at slashdot several weeks back. It would be nice if this were wrong - if XML would actually make it more likely to be able to open docs/files cross-platform (REAL cross-platform/cross-os). praedor - -- Gods are fragile things; they may be killed by a whiff of science or a dose of common sense. -- Chapman Cohen Fingerprint: D170 2A02 B426 6AA0 5E68 3EDC 68AA FDB0 961E 4F18 -----BEGIN PGP SIGNATURE----- Version: GnuPG v1.2.1 (GNU/Linux) iD8DBQE+ieyuaKr9sJYeTxgRAlLOAKCjAlcyYFMh9sP5lM0O59caBHIhmQCfZmQA 5xylQJ4DzbHirJ4iLbrhRWA= =/enz -----END PGP SIGNATURE-----
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