Hi:
I found this interesting article about the recent MS published schemas. And I like to share it with the rest of the community:
http://www.theregister.co.uk/content/4/34045.html
What a frustrating point of view! But I fear to much will be true:
... there's plenty of room in the specification for binary data or what Microsoft calls "arbitary schema". People forget that the X in XML is for extensible.
As Mike Champion asked here, "What is the point of storing data in XML if the schema is so hideous and proprietary than no one can use it without proprietary API support? What advantages does WordML have over the HTML-like stuff that current versions of Word generate on request? At least you can tidy.exe the HTML-like stuff into standard XML, but what can you do with WordML except load it into Word...unless of course you are an XSLT uber-geek?"
Joerg
