Re: word processor document format: what parts?

[Mark Galassi <rosalia cygnus com>]

    > On Sat, 19 Sep 1998, Jean-Baptiste wrote:
    >> So XML is the right thing to do, now who's going to write the
    >> DTD and stylesheets for the templates? ;-)

I don't think that's a problem.  A lot of DTDs exist: the most complex
DTD you'll probably need is DocBook which has already been
re-expressed as an XML DTD.  For Word-like functionality you can
probably do with the HTML DTD :-)

DSSSL stylesheets already exist for these; I haven't studied XSL,
though, so I don't know what the relationship is.  I do think, though,
that jade supports XSL now (whatever that means).

    Patrick> I'm more worried about who's going to write the editing
    Patrick> componenet :) I started trying to design something that
    Patrick> would be XML aware, XSL aware, export DOM, etc -- my head
    Patrick> is still spinning.

Patrick, I would love it if you could share your design ideas.