Bob Bell said:
>On Tue, Jun 19, 2001 at 02:05:28PM -0400, Benjamin Scott
<[EMAIL PROTECTED]> w
>rote:
>> The whole "all the world runs Microsoft Office" perception is a
problem, b
>ut
>> that is a different sort of problem. There already are open format
>> alternatives; it is just getting people to use them is hard.
>
> I had read (source unknown, but I think it was a ZD pub) that the
>next (?) version of MS Windows will move heavily to XML. It is my
>recollection that the Windows registry and MS Office file formats will
>move to XML. I wonder what this will do for interoperability?
>
Given that there is nothing in XML to prevent embedding proprietary data, I suspect
very little. XML, like it's parent SGML, is a language for describing markups, not a
markup language itself. All depends on the schema. Thus:
<?xml version="1.0"?>
<!DOCTYPE Proprietary SYSTEM "proprietary.dtd">
<propdata>
{binary junk}
</propdata>
Is valid XML, but is unreadable by anything besides the proprietary product.
jeff
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