Re: [xml-dev] Remembering the original XML vision

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Thomas B. Passin <>
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2003-02-19T00:42:57Z
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Re: [xml-dev] Remembering the original XML vision
[Jonathan Robie]

> At 09:30 AM 2/18/2003 -0500, David Megginson wrote:
> >Publishers can reasonably expect authors to install and
> >maintain their own copies of Word (or OpenOffice) at home, but they
> >cannot expect the same for XML authoring software.
>
> Yep. It's hard for users to write documents in XML. I wonder if that will
> change with Microsoft's new Office software.
>
> Anyone have opinions on that?
>

It will require more specialists to set up anything that does not come
standard - Word 11 needs to have an XML Schema at a minimum (and then some
kind of styleing instructions) to give the user any help authoring a
document.  But if set up, it may turn out to be really nice.

Cheers,

Tom P