RE: Office 2003 Beta

[m.oritz_b.erger@xxxxxxxxxxx (Moritz Berger)]

http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/developer/default.asp
has information about XML in Word11.

Also, be sure to check out
http://www.microsoft.com/office/preview/developer/XML.asp

Office 2003 uses schema based (XSD) XML-data together with standard XSL
transformations.

Instead of trying to spread fear, uncertainty and doubt about Microsofts
intentions and new products, why didn't you put up the 10 minute effort to
search microsoft.com and check out the facts? I.e.:

"Microsoft Office Word 2003
Native XML support in Word 2003 enables authoring of rich content with
customer-defined XML schemas, enabling the repurposing of document content
across devices, platforms and processes. In addition, Word can act as a
smart client and a host for smart document solutions. 
Word offers two ways to save documents as XML. Support for XML as a native
file format preserves the Word document, including formatting, hyperlinks
and paragraphs. Support for customer-defined XML schemas enables users to
preserve or extract from the document only the data or structural elements
of interest to a particular application. In either case, users can create
documents containing information marked by XML tags in a completely
intuitive fashion; users need not learn or understand the concepts behind
XML to realize the full benefit. 
Smart client solutions allow users to consume data from Web services within
Word, effectively connecting the desktop to data sources across the
enterprise or on the Internet. Smart document solutions can automate
document creation and document-related business processes. Smart documents
combine the familiar Word (or Excel) interface with an intuitive task pane,
which offers relevant information and context-sensitive actions based on the
location of the cursor within the document. XML support also makes it
possible for developers to create document solutions that incorporate
virtually any live or static XML content into a Word document."

Regards,

Moritz



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