So why is xhtml a bad thing for open office to use? Its not like browsers are using it. I would say the contrary to it being a bad thing. A while a go I wanted to have some sort of "advance" templating system where anyone with an IQ of 100 or greater could open up open office and create a template that would be merged with a relational database. Now yes, you have mail merging, but the functionality of mail merges is limitted. Anyhow, i managed to create a hackish supporting class that would let me use django templates in the open office format. The end result is i created database structures in django, upload openoffice templates, and merge :-D So I find that fact that the format is xml to be of great use
On 2/23/07, Paul G. Allen <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote:
On Thu, 2007-02-22 at 20:18 -0800, Rick Funderburg wrote: > Tracy R Reed wrote: > > Mark Phillips wrote: > >> On Feb 20, 2007, at 4:17 PM, Gus Wirth wrote: > >>> Don't try to use OpenOffice. I just did a quick check, and the > >>> output is some XHTML that should be cast into the pits of hell > >>> before being unleashed onto humanity. > >> > >> OK, I'll bite... why do you feel this way? > > > > I don't think he was saying xhtml is bad. I think he was saying that > > OO generates bad (ugly) xhtml. > > > Indeed. But if you do want a reason to not like XHTML, you could claim > that it is poorly supported by browsers, since some browsers (like IE) > do not support the appropriate mime types[1]. > As with HTML, CSS, etc. if the browser writers would use the W3C standards and verification tools, then all browsers would work far better. This goes further to other web developers as well (I admit to my own laziness at times when just trying to get a page or several pages done quickly and I skip the standards verification step. PGA -- Paul G. Allen BSIT/SE Owner/Sr. Engineer Random Logic Consulting www.randomlogic.com -- [email protected] http://www.kernel-panic.org/cgi-bin/mailman/listinfo/kplug-list
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