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["Lawrence F. London, Jr." <lfl@intrex.net>]

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