Re: Single-sourcing, who's doing it?

Subject: Re: Single-sourcing, who's doing it?
From: Sean Brierley <seanb_us -at- yahoo -dot- com>
To: "TECHWR-L" <techwr-l -at- lists -dot- raycomm -dot- com>
Date: Thu, 23 Oct 2003 06:46:49 -0700 (PDT)


My guess is that Word's approach to XML is similar to
the approach already used by Rascal's Veredus
software: the XML is not really useful outside the
product. So, Word's strenght will continue to be it's
proprietary advantages, not its XML ones.

But, that's just a WAG.

Cheers,

Sean

--- Goober Writer <gooberwriter -at- yahoo -dot- com> wrote:

> Sorry. I thought you were talking about XML still,
> as
> that was where the thread was going.
>
> I don't import Word into FM, so I can't help you
> there. I don't use Word at all, actually, for any
> real
> work, so I can't help you there either. I've played
> with Excel and have taken a look at Outlook (2003),
> and they're pretty cool (Outlook finally works the
> way
> I tell it to). But most of my 2003 investigation has
> actually been outside Office, in Visio. Its XML
> handling is better, but still you need to develop
> schemas, which for some will not be trivial.

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