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  • From: "Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>
  • To: pcplantdb <pcplantdb@lists.ibiblio.org>
  • Subject: Re: [pcplantdb] BBC NEWS | Technology | Microsoft adopts web file styles
  • Date: Sat, 04 Jun 2005 22:23:33 -0400

Richard Morris wrote:

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.

Last night I watched and recorded an hour-long interview with the CEO of Google. They are going mano a mano with Mickeysoft over Web search resources. Google seems to be way ahead
especially in the area of (something to do with) satellites and language translation [they're due to come out with a major innovation soon]. The rankings are:
Google
MS
Yahoo
others on the horizon

Google is a project very much worth keeping track of.

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.

I will look at a copy of this the next time I am in B&N or Borders.

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.

I will do this, get a good book on XHTML and be done with it. I am not sure what I want to do exactly but wil get some ideas once I read an XHTML text.
Eventally I will have lots of photos, videos and text to share with other websites looking for useful information. I hope to document activity in my gardens and in the
permaculture systems integrated with them.

Guess its good that France and Holland nixed the EU constitution; maybe this gets Tony Blair off the hook; but what for the future of a tight European federation?
,

Rich


Cheers,

LL






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