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  • From: Richard Morris <webmaster@pfaf.org>
  • To: pcplantdb <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft adopts web file styles
  • Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 13:58:53 +0100

Lawrence F. London, Jr. wrote:
John Schinnerer wrote:

Aloha,

*Microsoft is putting a key web technology at the heart of its most popular programs.*

By late 2006 all the files created by users of its Office suite of software will be formatted with web-centred XML specifications.

Ah yes, lagging behind the open source community (OpenOffice specifically) by a good handful of years, as usual...

Anyone want to start a pool on whether they'll create proprietary "extensions" to the international XML 'standard', just to jerk everyone around as usual?

Go ahead, call me cynical... ;-)

I think you'e right on target about that. They'll think of some way to "tweak" the standards enough to make things difficult.

I beleive this is the case. There been quite a bit on slashdot about
the xml for office being proprity. They don't actually change the XML standard, its just the particular dtd (which specifies the different tags used for a particular aplication) wihich is closed.

Anyway, reading this article after the ones I posted earlier about the steel industry adopting XML for secure data sharing among
participating websites gave me a clearer view of what XML is all about.

I will want to use XML coding to redo my own commercial website which I will use to promote my market farm's produce and gardening hand tools I will make in my shop.
It will contain lots of photos and product information plus many links and references to other North Carolina businesses. I plan to move to Register.com for webhosting
as they offer a great del and run unix.

Can you recommend a good book on XML? I hand code using a good text editor like Textpad, Uedit or Notetab. Maybe I will need an XML editor.

The book I used is XML in a Nutshell, from O'Riley, it covers most of the most common XML stuff, but is quite heavy going.

A lot depends on quite what you want to do with xml as it is a very vast subject. XHTML is a version of HTML which complies with XML standards, this may be wat you want to used.

Rich




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