Marielle, xml is supposed to be unicode not ascii unless the dtf tells you so... Although I would think it a good behavior for programs to check this anyway ;)
It's usually a good start, before using a format, to know it expected structure, encoding, etc... Not that ascii xml is not good but it is not standard. Is ASCII obsolete? ;) Also the real xml office format is in OpenOffice... Unless you like updating your parsers every 6 months MS releases a fix for office ;) On the positive side of things, MS keeps developpers busy ;) cheers Xavier http://monsieurx.com/taoo RevOffice included (under construction ;) > -----Original Message----- > From: [EMAIL PROTECTED] > [mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] On Behalf Of > Marielle Lange > Sent: Wednesday, 14 December, 2005 17:35 > To: use Revolution How to > Subject: MS Office and XML > > I wouldn't bet on the ASCII format. There have been talks > about of a binary xml format. > <http://www.xml.com/pub/a/2003/08/13/deviant.html> > <http://searchwebservices.techtarget.com/qna/ > 0,289202,sid26_gci1027594,00.html> > > > > The latest Office suite uses XML as the native file format. > Not sure > > how open and available it is, but it should ideally be > writable since > > it's ultimately ASCII now.... > -------------------------------------------------------------- > ---------- > -------- > Marielle Lange (PhD), Psycholinguist > > Alternative emails: [EMAIL PROTECTED], [EMAIL PROTECTED] > Homepage > http://homepages.lexicall.org/mlange/ > Easy access to lexical databases > http://lexicall.org > Supporting Education Technologists http:// > revolution.lexicall.org/wiki > > > _______________________________________________ > use-revolution mailing list > [email protected] > Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage > your subscription preferences: > http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution _______________________________________________ use-revolution mailing list [email protected] Please visit this url to subscribe, unsubscribe and manage your subscription preferences: http://lists.runrev.com/mailman/listinfo/use-revolution
