Re: BOB: GNOME Word Processor Efforts
- From: Alexander Kjeldaas <astor guardian no>
- To: Alan Shutko <ats acm org>, "Brandon S. Allbery" <allbery ece cmu edu>
- Cc: mill pedgr571 sn umu se, gnome-list gnome org
- Subject: Re: BOB: GNOME Word Processor Efforts
- Date: Tue, 20 Oct 1998 14:57:14 +0200
On Mon, Oct 19, 1998 at 08:01:36AM -0500, Alan Shutko wrote:
>
> Right. Whatever. Now that we have a syntax, can we actually develop
> a _file format_? (Sorry, but I'm sick of people invoking the magic
> name of XML without mentioning that it doesn't address semantics at
> all. I've known people to get confused about this and think no work
> will have to be put into translaters at all.)
>
> Right now, XML is a worse format than RTF, because you at least know
> what the various RTF tags are and what they mean... you don't even
> know what the XML tags will be....
>
DSSSL?
astor
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Alexander Kjeldaas, Guardian Networks AS, Trondheim, Norway
http://www.guardian.no/
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