RE: ready to be flamed about ms word "XML"

["Baeseman, Cliff" <Cliff Baeseman greenheck com>]

Take a look at Glade as a example. I believe everyone is moving towards XML
with good cause, it is flexible and parsers exist for most all languages. 

Cliff

-----Original Message-----
From: Jim Ziegler [mailto:jcz@ziplink.net]
Sent: Monday, August 30, 1999 9:17 AM
To: gtk-app-devel-list@redhat.com
Subject: Re: ready to be flamed about ms word


On Sat, 28 Aug 1999, Bob Lissner wrote:
> We're starting to think that we should use Microsoft file
> formats for Word, Excel, and Access.  Why?  I also run a
> home building business, and every day I get Word files
> attached to email.  The sender just ASSUMES that I can read
> Word files, or Excel, etc.  So why fight it?
> 

Bad idea. MS changes the fromats all the time.

> Our file formats are currently all visible ascii
> characters.  We could stay that way too.

Sounds good.  One can always fix problems, extract data, reformat, etc. with
a
plain text editor.


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