What M$ has done is abuse (IMO) the flexibility of XML to disguise its "IP." Their spec is essentially a load (thousands of pages) of tags of the form <TabIndentInPageFooterIsSameAsExcel95WithExtensions3And4And5And6> No definition, just references to an illegal-to-reverse-engineer implementation, so no one can implement their spec.
Over 6000 pages of it. XML is not inherently bad, in fact it's quite good. But some folks can write bad code in any language. Donald. ----- Original Message ----- From: "Greg Dyess" <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 9:56:47 AM (GMT-0500) Auto-Detected Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Re: Kicad library project I've read something saying they were putting forward a semi-competing XML extension standard of some kind, but that is the extent of my familiarity with the topic. I used XML for the first time when I staerted doing serious Linux development a few years ago (from MS and previously VMS). At first, I was against it due to its verbosity and textual-basis. I've come to appreciate it for those various reasons. I'm not wed to the idea or even an evangelical on the topic. I just threw it out there as an idea worthy of discussion. Greg ________________________________ From: KeepIt SimpleStupid <[email protected]> To: [email protected] Sent: Monday, September 14, 2009 8:37:54 AM Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Re: Kicad library project Is XML a viable avenue to pursue because of all the trouble Microsoft is getting in for using XML as a basis for Word? Example: http://www.pcworld.com/article/170148/microsoft_word_lawsuit_xml_explained.html Terms: Microsoft, XML, Lawsuit --- On Mon, 9/14/09, Greg Dyess <[email protected]> wrote: >From: Greg Dyess <[email protected]> >Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Re: Kicad library project >To: [email protected] >Date: Monday, September 14, 2009, 8:37 AM > > > >There are a number of open-source public-domain XML parsing libraries that are >cross platform. I am most familiar with Xerxes. ACE may even have some XML >capabilities in addition to its wonderful networking, multithreading and job >pooling. Wow, a multithreaded router perhaps? > >Greg > > > > ________________________________ From: Andy Eskelson <andyya...@g0poy. co.uk> >To: kicad-users@ yahoogroups. com >Sent: Saturday, September 12, 2009 5:01:41 PM >Subject: Re: [kicad-users] Re: Kicad library project > >Do bear in mind that KiCad is a multi platform system, so things should >work on both Linux and Windows. > >Andy > [snip]
