On Thu, 13 Jul 2006 04:45 am, Bob Doyle wrote: > Hi all, > > Recently I wrote an article on how Microsoft announced their > competing Office Open XML standard, just a few months after > the OASIS OpenDocument standard was adopted and Massachusetts > announced that all state documents would need OpenDocument > capability by 2007. > > I also videotaped an Open Document Format debate between > Microsoft's top Washington lobbyist and the Executive Editor > of ZDNet at last Fall's Gilbane Conference on Content > Management Technologies. > http://www.cmsreview.com/Videos/Gilbane/OpenDocDebate.html > > Now Microsoft has surprised everyone with an Open Source > project, hosted on SourceForge, to provide a translation > facility from Word to OpenDocument. This will work in earlier > versions of Word, not just the upcoming Word 2007. > > I have noted that many content management professional still > work in Word, even when preparing content for our CM Pros > website. http://www.cmprofessionals.org > > That introduces some pesky problems, like Word's smart quotes > and their em-dash, which show up as unrecognized characters in > HTML and break XML, including RSS feeds from our CM Pros > bloggers. > > Quite often, our blog aggregator software (Drupal) fails to > parse an RSS feed. The most frequent error is a character that > is invalid XML - usually from text copied and pasted from > Word. The result is that those bloggers don't appear on the CM > Pros home page until the offending post is no longer in their > feed. > > Here is the article - Open Office Wars: > http://www.econtentmag.com/Articles/ArticleReader.aspx?Article >ID=15295&AuthorID=155 > > And here is Brian Jones, Microsoft Office Program Manager, > describing their embrace of OpenDocument. > http://blogs.msdn.com/brian_jones/archive/2006/07/05/657510.as >px > So what is the point you are making?
Malcolm > Cheers, --------------------------------------------------------------------- To unsubscribe, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED] For additional commands, e-mail: [EMAIL PROTECTED]
