On Fri, February 23, 2007 2:51 pm, Andrew Lentvorski wrote:
> Jason Kraus wrote:
>> So why is xhtml a bad thing for open office to use?
>
> Because the problem which xhtml services is different, and only very
> tangentially related, to word processing.
>
> XHTML is about content and only slightly about presentation.  Word
> processing is mostly about presentation and only slightly about content.
>
> This means that you need to create absolutely horrible hacks in XHTML to
> make the page look *exactly* like you want.  And that's normally what
> people using a word processor want--exact control over how the page looks.

OK but what standard would you suggest that would be better for word
processing then?

Chris


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