On 11-Dec-2002/15:36 -0800, nate <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: >I think longer term, the solution is not to work with them, but >design a good open format. But before we even try to impose this >format on the rest of the world, the open source/free software >suites need to support it fully. Sofar I haven't noticed any >activivies on the parts of openoffice/staroffice, koffice, abiword, >and others to even start on such a format unfortunately. And no >XML by itself isn't good enough, all XML is a buncha tags, it can't >be decoded and displayed right unless everyone knows what all the >tags mean. I mean, Zope can export my websites to XML, fat chance >that I'll be able to load them in openoffice though! > >I look forward to that day, if it ever comes!
Someone is working on it: http://www.infoworld.com/articles/hn/xml/02/11/20/021120hnopenoffice.xml XML + stylesheets will do the trick. I'm sure that once the standard is agreed upon, it won't take long for Star/OpenOffice to support it. Tony -- Anthony E. Greene <mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]> OpenPGP Key: 0x6C94239D/7B3D BD7D 7D91 1B44 BA26 C484 A42A 60DD 6C94 239D AOL/Yahoo Chat: TonyG05 HomePage: <http://www.pobox.com/~agreene/> Linux: the choice of a GNU Generation. <http://www.linux.org/> -- redhat-list mailing list unsubscribe mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED]?subject=unsubscribe https://listman.redhat.com/mailman/listinfo/redhat-list
