Re: Office 2003 Beta

[DW Emory <danemory@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>]

I guess my conclusion was that Microsoft is producing some sort of XSL that 
does not conform to the XSL standard, which is Microsoft's typical 
"solution," thereby forcing everyone to continue using Microsoft products. 
Perhaps I'd better investigate further.
At 08:36 PM 3/21/03 +0000, Mark Barratt wrote:
>Can't tell from your email if you're grinning...
>
>DW Emory wrote:
>>I thought it would be worthwhile to post this latest word (from slashdot) 
>>about Office 2003/XP-XML
>
>>system providers." Apparently, all formatting and presentation 
>>information is removed from the XML. Furthermore, Office's new
>
>I read this out to my little workgroup and they started running around and 
>cheering, shouting things like 'What's happened? Microsoft's done 
>something properly at last?'. Surely the point of markup is that you can 
>transfer material without formatting and presentation information?
>
>Now, typically in Frame I might maintain two EDDs and two templates for a 
>document set: one for the authors/editors so the type works on screen, the 
>drafts print out with scribbling space, important attribute information is 
>printed for checking, etc. The 'publication' EDD-and-template set will 
>have different page size and typography, different formatting context 
>rules, no visible attributes, etc etc.
>
>Word sounds promising, when we've been bracing ourselves to drop it in 
>favour of Open/Star Office...

FrameMaker/FrameMaker+SGML Document Design & Database Publishing
DW Emory <danemory@globalcrossing.net>


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